Track & Field Blogs
Link Love: Track & Field Blogs, 1st Edition
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
[With this post, I begin a new special feature titled Link Love that will present for your reading pleasure my favorite blogs, news sites and specialty sites that cover the wonderful world of track & field. I begin with my absolute favorite category: Track & Field Blogs.]
Jimson Lee over at Speedendurance.com has written an interesting analysis of Usain Bolt’s 10 meter splits in his world-record 100m race. Be sure to stop by his site sometime soon and read it. I guarantee that you’ll be as impressed as I always am.
Ben and Jeremy have a blog called Less Than Our Best and, boy, are you in for a treat! They are what you might call our surrealists or our post-modern track & field bloggers (or, more truthfully, our resident twenty-something slackers). They always tell it like it is and they try to do it in a hilarious, "who cares?" way. They have a couple of new posts that you ought to check out. Ben does a little promotional stuff for their upcoming LIVE BLOG BEER BASH and Jeremy sums up the media’s ignorant melodrama as it relates to the perception that Team USA has blown it in Beijing. I agree with Jeremy. Sure, they could have done better, but surely six more medals than any other team (as of 8/22/08) is good enough, no?
My favorite Steeplechic Ann Gaffigan always has the most comprehensive women’s steeplechase coverage available anywhere, live or virtual. Not only that, but the former American record holder brings a unique perspective to her blog that only a world-class athlete can do.
Ken Stones always writes interesting stuff about Masters Track. If your brain is suffering from Olympic Overload right now, maybe a change of pace will work for you. Of course (since the pace of those masters athletes isn’t necessarily any slower than the younger elite athletes) many of them are in the Olympics, so you’re right back where you started.
If you still haven’t had enough of these Textual Olympics (admit it, if you’re as big of a track geek as I am, you’re peeking at the results some 12 hours before that evil empire called NBC is broadcasting the events, right?) then you can read some terrific summaries over at The Track & Field Superblog (thanks to Jesse for his analytical and thorough math mind), Pre-Race Jitters (kudos to Jay Hicks for his enthusiasm and love for the sport) and TheFinalSprint.com (Adam Jacobs and crew always do a top-notch job. Rumor has it that some new podcasts will be published soon!).
Bryan (or is it Buraian?) over at Optimal Training is offering some unique insights of his own from Japan about the Beijing Games. While you’re there (uh… not necessarily in Japan, or China, but at his website), you might even pick up some tips about improving your own PRs and your mental game.
Last but not least, TrackMOM has the youth track & field angle covered. Her blog may be the most important one, since the future of our favorite sport depends on educating our children about it and cultivating their enthusiasm for it. In that respect, Lorraine "TrackMOM" Williams has to be considered the ambassador for our sport.
If I missed your track & field blog, it probably wasn’t on purpose! Most likely, don’t know about it yet. Please leave a comment with a link to your site and I’ll be sure to check out your blog. If your site makes my toes curl, I’ll put you on my blogroll and then begin preparing Edition 2 of Link Love: Track & Field Blogs!
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