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Things To Do With Your Shoes Off

by pribut on August 20, 2010

Exercising while barefoot is a good way to work on your balance, proprioception (joint position sense) and lower leg strength. Runners World has a fine short article on Barefoot Exercise written by Adam Bean (which I was interviewed for) in the September, 2010 issue and online.
Several Videos of an agile athlete demonstrating the exercises are [...]

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Running In America: On The Airwaves

by pribut on July 10, 2010

The Diane Rehm Show will host Christopher McDougall (author of Born To Run), Amby Burfoot (winner of Boston Marathon, 1968, Editor at large: Runners World) and myself on Monday. The topic will be “Running In America. We should cover a lot of ground. Both Amby and Christopher are knowledgeable and entertaining. It should be an [...]

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Blisters: The Worst That Could Happen

by pribut on July 8, 2010

Blisters are a common sports injury caused by a combination of friction and moisture. Blisters normally
cause pain that limits your activity and resolve and go away. You should take good care of blisters to avoid infection. Running in pain with an altered gait can cause you to injure another body part. A couple of days [...]

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PEN Nonfiction Literary Award: Literary Sports Writing

by pribut on May 17, 2010

PEN has partnered with ESPN to create the PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing award. This award will honor the best non-fiction book on sports for 2009. The winner will receive $5,000 and be invited to speak at the 2010 CUNY Pen Literary Awards  ceremony on October  13, 2010.
Any guesses on the possible winner?

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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Gently Approaching The Marathon

by pribut on March 24, 2010

Two Steps Forward One Step Back: Marching To Marathon Success
The 10% rule of limiting weekly increases in mileage to no more than ten percent is widely quoted as the sin qua non of incremental training. In many cases even this may be too much. An invariably rising load of 10 percent each week may not [...]

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What’s next after the penguin?

by pribut on March 22, 2010

There is much variety among the blogs at Runner’s World. But not long ago the Penguin flew off and waddled away. He is missed by many and has left a void among the determined blog reading, but non-elite runners.
Journalism professor and fitness geek Ted Spiker has started a new blog at Runner’s World called The [...]

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Achilles Tendinopathy: PRP Disappoints in New Study

by pribut on January 14, 2010

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Jan. 13, 2010 gave disappointing results in using plasma rich protein to treat non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy. It showed no difference between using a sham injection of saline and combining it with a painful eccentric stretching protocol  in comparison with an injection of plasma rich [...]

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Challenging Running Injuries

by pribut on January 6, 2010

An article written for the January, 2010 issue of Podiatry Management Magazine entitled “Challenging Running Injuries: Be Knowledgeable, Be Prepared” is available in PDF format. It is at the PM site along with a quiz for continuing medical education credit. The target audience is health care professionals. Much of the information has been or will [...]

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Web Updates

by pribut on November 25, 2009

Holiday wishes and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. This is just a quick note.
I’ve added some new material and updated some older material. The topics and pages are:
Injuries To the Hallucal Sesamoid Bones: Sesamoidopathy and Sesamoiditis

Hallux Rigidus and Hallux Limitus

Turf Toe
These can all be challenging problems for athletes. They are less common than certain other problems, [...]

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NY Marathon: Results

by pribut on November 1, 2009

Meb Brings It On Home!

The winners are in for the 2009 New York Marathon. Another exciting and great race with some surprises. Paula Radcliffe placed 4th in the race and suffered from ongoing injuries. Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia finished in first place. Meb Keflezighi, wearing a USA singlet, 34 years old, set a PR (2:09:15) [...]

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