Monthly Archives: March 2011
Race of the Week: Valencia 5K
By Pete Williams We’re changing the format of our Race of the Week, recognizing that it makes more sense to preview a race that’s the following week instead of one just a few days away. This way, athletes have plenty … Continue reading
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Preparing for ‘The Death Race’
ESF’s ENDURING ATHLETE OF THE MONTH – MARCH By Pete Williams If you were going to lay odds on someone to win “The Death Race,” the grueling endurance event in Vermont billed as “Survivor meets 300,” Paul Roarke would be … Continue reading
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Race of the Week: Friends of the Wekiva River at Kings Landing Canoe, Kayak and SUP Race
By Pete Williams Anyone who has attempted the Friends of the Wekiva River at Kings Landing Canoe and Kayak Race in the past knows it’s a challenging 8.5-mile, downstream event. For this year’s event, which takes place Saturday, March 26 … Continue reading
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Playboy’s Endurance Sports Adventurer
By Pete Williams Jaclyn Swedberg, (left) Playboy’s Playmate of the Month for April, is quite the adventure sports enthusiast. As one of the stars of Playboy TV’s “Badass,” Swedberg has surfed, raced cars, rappelled down mountains, and run in the … Continue reading
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Muddy Buddy Season Preview
By Pete Williams Bob Babbitt wasn’t the first to come up with an adventure mud run, though his 12-year-old Muddy Buddy series is largely responsible for inspiring so many mud-themed races that they’re now considered a separate category in the … Continue reading
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Tough Mudder Coming to Pasco County
By Pete Williams The Tough Mudder, perhaps the most challenging of the growing field of adventure mud runs, is coming to Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City on Dec. 3-4. Billed as “the toughest endurance test on the planet,” Tough … Continue reading
An Alternative to Pain
By Pete Williams Endurance athletes deal with all sorts of pain, from acute to chronic, and often times the solutions are neither simple nor permanent. That’s why the injection-based prolotherapy process has become a popular alternative for many athletes. It … Continue reading
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The 17-Day Diet
By Pete Williams We chatted this morning on The Fitness Buff Show with Mike Moreno, author of the new book The 17-Day Diet. This doesn’t have much to do with endurance sports. After all, most endurance athletes aren’t fighting the … Continue reading
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The Simple Science of Natural Running
By Pete Williams As a running coach and maker of custom orthotics in the late 1980s, Danny Abshire wondered why so many runners got injured. He realized many were overstriding and landing improperly due to shoes designed to make runners … Continue reading
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