Weekly link round-up
It’s Friday the 13th - and you’re in luck! The Runnersdaily link round-up has been carefully scanned for evil, the supernatural, black dogs and slashing blades in general. You can safely click through the links without being stalked by a returnee from the spirit world bent on horrifically violent murder. Viewing these web pages on running stories will not cause you to receive phone calls from an anonymous individual with a terrifyingly hoarse voice saying that they can see you, and that you and your computer should be afraid, very afraid.
- In the hope that posting this link brings on a spell of nice hot weather, here is a piece on heatstroke and its dangers.
- In Japan, there is a lot of rice - it barely needs stating - and using rice husks on running shoes has been one of Asics’ tricks for a while. Here’s a piece on it.
- The last Brit to win the prestigious Dream Mile in Oslo was Peter Elliott in 1991. Now Andy Baddeley has done it, and Steve Cram is impressed.
- One of the all-time great races, the Comrades Marathon, takes place this weekend in South Africa. The race organisers have had to clamp down on the tradition of runners hauling overexhausted comrades across the line.
- Can you beat these times? These are the men’s season’s bests so far. Hint: one of them is 9.72 for 100m, so if you can beat that, ring your national athletics governing body pronto.
Happy running this weekend!