Featured Stories: Beware of Slogans

“Go big or go home.” I heard this phrase a hundred times at a recent 24-hour mountain bike race. It implies, of course, that if you’re not pushing the limits of your pain/skill threshold with every pedal, if you’re not testing the full travel capacity of your fork, if you’re not tying a tourniquet to the blown artery in your leg so you can go one more lap, then you may as well be at home watching figure skating with a bag of chips on your lap.

Featured Stories: The Rundown: A Round Up of the Region's Best Running Events

2006 Running Events

Featured Stories: Free Fallin'

“If you’re so inclined, now’s the time to pray,” booms our skydive instructor, Frank “The Tank” Avila. He yanks my harness so tightly that we are spooned together like a married couple. Under any other circumstance, I would blush. But Frank, I remind myself, is my lifeline for the next several minutes. I surrender to the experience.

Featured Stories: The Money Chase: Can Runners Buy a Better Performance

Running could very well be the least expensive sport in the history of man. Two legs, two feet. That’s all you need. If there’s any sport in the world that classifies as “primal,” running is it. This is a sport that existed even before man developed the concept of sport. It’s more than a pastime, it’s the natural progression of human development: crawl, walk, run. It’s elemental. Natural. Simple.