Crisp mornings, crunchy leaves, all the squash recipes… Most importantly, it’s marathon season. Along with Chicago this past weekend, we also kept up with the rest of the endurance sport world, including the Women’s Ironman Championship in Kona, UCI Gravel Worlds in the Netherlands, and the penultimate race of the Lifetime Grand Prix Series. Next up in the marathon line up: Marine Corps on October 26; New York on November 2; California International Marathon on December 7. For some 26.2 mile events you can still get into this fall, check out the calendar here.
Taylor Gilland: Daily Habit
Here’s a nice reflection on the comfort of habits, the various relationships we have with running, and why people are gravitating toward the sport.
“And with anything in life, it feels really good to progress and get better and see your body respond. I always enjoy that part of doing anything, and I think it's one of the things that has really attracted people to running.”
Are the Longevity Rules Different for Women?
Do women and men need different health guidelines? While this article investigates general health, rather than athletic performance or endurance, it covers recent research on gender-based recommendations regarding exercise, diet, sleep and medications - to help us run, swim, bike, hike… longer.
In case you missed it, mountain athlete, Killian Jornet, just completed a personal project representing “the perfect nexus of his curiosity about the body’s limits and a drive to understand threats to American wilderness, through both personal experience and conversations with locals along the way.” He called his project that connected all the 14-ers across the United States “States of Elevation" meant not only summiting all, but traveling only by foot or bike. One adventurous journalist got to go along.
‘The most aesthetic line’: how Kilian Jornet climbed the 72 highest US mountains in 31 days
