Running Diary, day0021

22nd Dec 2013, 23C, overcast.
Today ran with Elias CC running club. 9.6km in 1:15 with wife.
Continued to read Scott Jurek's Eat & Run. It was the best part when he won 2 toughest race in two weeks: Western states 100 followed by Badwater. That was so-called "on the edge". He had amazing body condition mastety that made him kept running on the edge and peak. Jurek also mentioned a lot of biologocal mechanism in ultra endurance running, that I had seen on Noak, Lydiad, and Maffetone's books. The theory was not new, but solid came from Jurek's experience. But I think the most important thing was how he made daily life in a positive cycle which kept training, rest (recovery), working, eating, in a perfect balanced state. The super fast recovery might be the result of vegan diet as he emphasized. I still think he had very strict self discipline to carty on his tough training and dietary.
I came up a post in FB said jogging made injury compared with "running", simply because more steps made in the same distance. The author made cheeting by neglecting the impact difference between long and short strides. I used to saw this post on natural running center. And it was posted by a local barefoot running group again. Had one been practicing barefoot running for longer time, he would not believe this nonsense.