What are they doing that track isn’t to get on linear tv?
2/2 It was a season’s best by nearly four seconds, a Masters PR by well over two, and a good reminder to keep going when your initial instinct is to call it quits.
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A dog ran onto the track during a high school relay race – and covered 100m in 10.5 seconds. 🤗 ⚡️ #wednesdaymotivation
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Chris Nickinson
Read before You Ultra
The more data we collect on ourselves, supposedly the better able we are to improve our lives. But metrics aren’t the arbiters of living well, nor is optimization life’s highest achievement.
Went to the library at 2:30 PM to write. Spent a lot of time staring at my screen and scribbling in my notebook. Wife texts me at 3:30, told her I’d be home no later than 4. Then the floodgates opened and words just started spilling out. Got home at 4:15. Don’t always love how my brain works.
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Keep going when you want to call it quits, Wright Thompson on the writing process, detaching from your devices before racing, and a lot more.
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I am more than a bit irked by how optimization culture has infiltrated running and the way we talk about the sport these days, so I wrote/ranted about it in my newsletter this week. themorningshakeout.substack.com/p/the-mornin...
“We are living in the ultimate revenge of the nerds, driven by a crew of socially awkward tech bros who won’t stop until the society that they never quite fit into is obliterated.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I had a great conversation with Tracksmith's Matt Taylor for my podcast this week. It’s a wide-ranging exchange about creativity, craft, entrepreneurship, and more that I’ve been waiting to have for a long time. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. themorningshakeout.com/episode-251-...
Life lesson #44, Everything All The Time, leading like Steve Kerr, and a lot more in this week’s issue of my newsletter. Please comment and/or share if there’s anything you found resonant and/or helpful. Thank you. 🙏🏻
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A rant against optimization culture infiltrating running, a conversation with Tracksmith co-founder Matt Taylor, why America needs more public tracks, and a lot more.
