Running News round-up: Broken legs, Breezes, and Gu fail.

• Yikes: Runner finishes Banque Scotia 21k de Montreal with a broken leg! [See the youtube video.] According to the Embrace Running podcast, the athlete had to have surgery after the race.  Question: Would you have kept running with a broken leg?
• Terrific article about fueling for your first marathon. 
• Wow, so Meb is running the RnR San Diego Half Marathon on June 1. Even better, he is also pacing the 1:30 group.
• Whats-her-name Chicago Marathon winner Liliya Shobukhova got banned for doping.
• Runner's world reviews the Runkeeper Breeze app. "A new app from RunKeeper tracks the exercise you get when you’re not running—without eating your phone’s battery life."  Would be interesting to see if this will ever be available for Android devices.
• Saskatoon Road Runners Association is screening "Spirit of the Marathon II" on May 12th.  Doors open at 6pm. 
• According to Wikipedia, the origin of the "marathon" comes from a messenger who ran to Athens from the battle at Marathon to give word that the Persians had been beaten. Pheidippides (that was the guy's name) died after completing his task.  He probably should have fueled up with Salted Caramel Gu. 
• The folks at Ebay need to work on their search algorithms. 
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Running News Round-up: Ninjas, Mebsanity and the Lincoln Tunnel

On Monday, Meb Keflezighi became the first American in forever (over 30 years) to win the Boston Marathon.

Ran across these items (no pun intended):

• Ninja 5K costume race scheduled for June 28 at The Horizon Center.
• Meb Keflezighi evidently won the 26.2 mile race wearing LA Gear Sneakers Skechers.  "I don't even know how people can walk in Skechers," unnamed source.
• Special treat for anyone who wants to run an entire race in a smoggy, filthy tunnel, whilst also inconveniencing an entire city and thusly bringing it to its knees: there's a 5K race in the Lincoln Tunnel. 
• I ran a half marathon... while injured. Global Saskatoon has the scoop on the race. 
• Another news story about people dying while running half marathons.  Makes you wonder if eventually participants would need to be pre-screened before being cleared to run. I hope not.

Running News Round-up: Death, Taxes, Boston and Blood Sugar.

By now you've probably heard about the two fatalities this past weekend at the Rock ’n’ Roll Half Marathon in Raleigh.  One of the deceased runners, Derrick Myers, is profiled in The Charlotte Observer. The 35 year old runner collapsed near the finish line.  Meanwhile in Galveston, Texas, a third runner died near the finish line of the Run Like a Diva Half Marathon.

The New York Times has a write-up about the Boston Marathon bomber.
It seems like a British guy won the North Korean Half Marathon--interesting article that talks about what running a race there is even like.

As everyone knows, Monday (4/21) is the Boston Marathon.  Those of us who took zero steps to be included in this year's race will be relaxing in the comfort of our respective domiciles.  I definitely want to run this race one day.  Right now, I think that just completing a marathon should be (and is) my objective. As some of you know, I am scheduled to make my first attempt in September at the Queen City Marathon.  QCM is a "Boston Qualifying" race, of course. but my objective is to complete the race, not qualify for anything.

In my own world of news: I'll be running the Saskatoon Police Half Marathon one week from today. My personal best is just over 1:57 (note: I've run one official half marathon race).  Since I'll be running a tougher course at a higher elevation than in Southern Ontario, I'm not expecting to set a new personal record.  The course is near (and along) the river, and it should be an interesting race.

I noticed an article on NPR (also, The Guardian has a write-up as well) about how low blood sugar causes crankiness. I'd be interested in seeing more about how elevated blood sugar (i.e. beyond the norm) alters one's mood.  My experience is that melancholy often ensues.

Interesting Running News: London Marathon, Protests, Corn Starch and Bandits.

Venezuelans in the US hold a protest race.  If they succeed in raising money to topple their government, wouldn't that be interesting?

On the opposite side of the relevance spectrum, runners get doused in colored corn starch in Oregon (protesting cleanliness and colorlessness, I'm guessing). You can read the Daily Emerald article about Color Me Rad at this link.

Organizers of the Boston Marathon are sick of race bandits and are implementing new measures to thwart them.  Maybe the Boston Athletic Association will hire Burt Reynolds to smoke out the bandits?

Scientific studies show conclusively that eating Fruit Loops will improve your run time.


London Marathon:

Dude proposed to his girlfriend while running the marathon.  No word of her response in the article, oddly enough.

Wales Online has an interesting article about a guy who has run every London Marathon.  Show off.

The results from the big race are in.