We hope everyone has recovered from the hour lost to Daylight Savings earlier this month! A new season is upon us, and while you’re spring cleaning the house, consider refreshing your weekly running or cycling routine with some new or revisited practices. Celebrate the equinox and Easter with a fun, family-friendly 5K to get some spring back in your step or prep for a summer half-marathon.
March 21 Owyhee Off-Road Challenge Adrian, OR
March 28 Tualatin River Run 5K Portland, OR
April 4 YMCA Easter Run Boise, ID
April 4 Hippity Hop Half Marathon Tucson Tucson, AZ
April 11 Corvallis Half Marathon & 5K Corvallis, OR
The rate at which competitive race times are dropping continues to astound me. Another record went down last week in Lisbon, where Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda ran a 57:20 half-marathon for a new world best by 10 seconds. The women’s race was won by Ethiopian athlete, Tsigie Gebreselama, in 1:04:48.
Kiplimo breaks world half marathon record with 57:20 on Lisbon return
In case you needed it, here’s one more reason to keep training consistently. As athletes interested in exercise physiology, we are familiar with our tiny but mighty mitochondria, the “powerhouse of the cell,” and an important player in endurance performance. Studies suggest that the health of these mitochondria is also significant for broader wellbeing, such as immune function and longevity, and that “both endurance and resistance training were effective, but doing the two in combination offered the biggest benefit.”