Your key to getting leaner and racing better may be metabolic efficiency training.
Written by: Bob Seebohar, MS, RD, CSSD, CSCS
Now is the time of the year when thoughts of dropping weight and body fat become extremely popular among runners. But what about planning your race-day nutrition to eliminate the demon of GI distress that rears its ugly head during your races? Attaining metabolic efficiency will have a significant impact on your body composition and GI comfort during races and will also reduce your need for simple sugars when racing.
“Efficiency” is a term that is typically associated with sport. From a nutrition perspective, being metabolically efficient simply means being able to use the proper nutrients that are stored in the body at the right times.
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Competitor.com’s Sean McKeon had a chance to test out the true capacity of the popular running utility belt called Spibelt. Spibelt can be used to help you carry things on your run, see how much we were able to fit in one Spibelt!
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You may be able to race faster on three or four runs per week than you do on six or seven.
Written by: Neil Cook
There are three key workouts that every runner should do each week. These are essential, must-do workouts. All of your other runs are optional. In fact, if you want to, you can create a training plan that includes only your three weekly key workout and no other running.
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Competitor.com’s Sean McKeon had a chance to learn about the new technologies that highlight Under Armour’s running shoe line. Leading their technology lineup is Cartilage, a new cushioning technology that will help dampen impact forces and smooth out foot-strike.
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Ty Stevens, of the US, takes third.
Written By: Greg Dawson
After six days of climbing volcanos, traversing rivers, fighting wind swept plateaus and scorching dry heat, Javier Montero (CRC) has secured his third consecutive overall win at The Coastal Challenge. Stage racing newcomer Margaret Phillips (Canada) took first place in the women’s division.
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5000m races highlight meet.
Written By: David Monti
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He may have been wearing number 13 on his hip, but tonight’s Reebok Boston Indoor Games at the Reggie Lewis Center here was anything but unlucky for two-time Olympic medallist Bernard Lagat. The 35 year-old three-time world champion uncharistically ran from the front to win his first-ever indoor 5000m in 13:11.50, breaking Galen Rupp’s one year old American record by 7 seconds.
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PhotoRun.net caught some of the highlights of the meet, including Bernard Lagat’s new indoor American record for 5000m.
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Bernard Lagat's new indoor American record. Photo: PhotoRun.net
Bernard Lagat set a new indoor American record over 5000m at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games. Lagat’s time of 13:11.50, broke Galen Rupp’s record of 13:18.12 set in 2009. Rupp, also in the race, set a personal best and is now second all-time for American’s indoors over 5000m with his time of 13:14.21.
Results can be found here: www.bostonindoorgames.com
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Every year we ask you to make some serious choices. In your opinion, what are the best local bike shops and running stores? Which short- and long-distance running, triathlon and cycling events give you the best bang for your buck?
Click here to see Competitor Magazine’s Best of 2009 broken down by region.
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Lagat, Rupp, Dibaba, Pierce among top names in distance events
There is much to excite track & field fans at this year’s Reebok Boston Indoor Games, to be held at 5:00 PM EST Saturday and replayed the following afternoon at 2:00 PM EST on ESPN2. Here are quick previews of the distance events:
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