Entries from April 2008

April 22, 2008

Cochrane Colloquium

My abstract on mixed treatment comparisons to the Cochrane Colloquium got accepted for a poster. This year, the meetings are in Freiburg, Germany, in October. Woo hoo!
We are pleased to inform you that the abstract was selected for presentation as a poster at the Colloquium.
Now I’ll need to decide if I can run the Berlin [...]

April 14, 2008

Peterson Ridge Rumble

Sunday I ran the 30K race of the Peterson Ridge Rumble out in Sisters, Oregon. We drove down to Sisters the night before and camped out at Cold Springs campground a few miles outside of town. Since it was still too early for camping we almost had the entire campground to ourselves. No surprise since [...]

April 11, 2008

Yasso 800s

I ran Yasso 800s today to break-in my new pair of Brooks Defyances, which by the way, absolutely rock! Yasso 800s are named after a Bart Yasso who came up with a novel way to predict marathon performance. The workout is simple. You run 10 repeats of 800 meter intervals at whatever pace will get [...]

April 10, 2008

New shoes!

A few weeks ago I bought a new pair of Saucony ProGrid Trigon 5 Rides and a couple of days ago I decided I couldn’t take them anymore.

The stiff overlays near the toes were giving me blisters consistently. I thought they only need to be broken in. But after 60+ miles, they were still giving [...]