athletics

Athletics and fitness are the essential ingredients for your body to live a long and healthy life.

She Cheated the Berlin Marathon and Called It a Personal Best
A bicycle at kilometer 38, a brand deal in flames, and the runners who finished. On September 27, 2026, 56,000 runners from 162 countries lined up for the Berlin Marathon. The course runs through the Brandenburg Gate, past the Victory Column, through a city that has seen more than its share of history.
By Jin4 days ago in Longevity
Tutus and Birthdays
Tutus! It's not uncommon to see colourful tutus prancing, leaping and trotting around parkrun courses. Typically, they celebrate milestones for participants... volunteering at or completing 25, 50, 100, 200 or 400 events. Not so yesterday at Highfields, Qld (Australian) parkrun. Tutus were celebrating parkrun's 22nd Birthday . Why tutus? Two-two; 22; tutu for those of us who had trouble keeping up... even before running the 5km event!
By Angie the Archivist 📚🪶5 days ago in Longevity
The Trap of Modern Fandom: Why Athletes Are Never Allowed to Just Compete
A flash goes off in the stands before a serve. The athlete raises a hand and points. The referee says, “Please turn off the flash.” The match continues. Afterward, social media trends on fan fights, shipping edits, and screenshots of comment control.
By Jin6 days ago in Longevity
23,000 Gyms Closed. The Gym That Would Not Die
The first thing I noticed was the silence. At the northwest corner of the fourth floor of Fangyuanli ID MALL, behind a glass door, a thousand square meters of gym equipment hummed. No one stood at the entrance. No free trial. A QR code glowed on the wall. I scanned it. A smart locker popped open.
By Jin10 days ago in Longevity
Life After Work: Is Adapting To Life Easier In Retirement?
When the sun goes down, it takes everything it has and sees it all. Does it know tomorrow will be different, so it must adapt to whatever it meets? Annelise Lords
By Annelise Lords 12 days ago in Longevity
Did the Miles Shape the Mind? Inside the New Science of Multi-Marathon Cognition
What if the people logging marathon after marathon really do think differently? That's the question sitting underneath a study published this year in the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology , led by Leo Lundy and Richard B. Reilly's group at Trinity College Dublin. The researchers gave a battery of cognitive tests to 130 multi-marathoners — people who measure their running careers in repeated marathon finish lines rather than a single race — and compared the results against normative data drawn from a large study of aging adults in Ireland. The multi-marathoners, whose average age was 53, made fewer errors on a task that measures sustained attention, responded faster on tests of cognitive and motor reaction time, and scored higher on a standard screening measure of general cognitive function than the age- and gender-matched comparison sample.
By Khali Sollis17 days ago in Longevity
Could You Become a Millionaire Just By Walking?
I walk a lot (or at least try). When I was living in Europe, I walked for 4 hours a day, often for fun. However, now that I live in unwalkable suburbia somewhere in the rancid armpit of Coal Country, Pennsylvania, I’ve been having some trouble incentivizing myself to get all the walking done that I otherwise would have if I were back in the Old World. Naturally, because of this, I’ve looked into walking rewards apps to incentivize myself to get those steps up. This is not an ad for those sorts of apps. They’re predatory advertisement-slave apps that definitely sell your personal data. The ads you receive on them are scammy and usually prioritize gambling or other money-making apps that would just make you watch more ads. Even when you have enough points to claim an award, the cash-out feature is often laden with delays, and sometimes you don’t even receive your money. However, let’s transport ourselves to an ideal world, where the rate of point acquisition remains the same, and the cashout thresholds remain the same, but the cashout is at least reliable. How long and how far would I have to walk to become a millionaire?
By Steven Christopher McKnight21 days ago in Longevity
What Happens When You're the Only One Awake at 4 AM?
He shut down his computer at exactly 4:23 every morning. The precision came from his alarm, set for 4:20, his cue to "start winding down." He called it the sleep transition period: three minutes to boil water, turn off the lights, push the keyboard to the farthest corner of the drawer. Then he tiptoed from the study to the bedroom, seven steps down the hallway, landing on the balls of his feet so his slippers wouldn't slap against the floor.
By Jinabout a month ago in Longevity
Different Types Of Physical Limits
Written by a human, for humans, always. What are your limits? It seems like a fairly simple question on the face of it...
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHMabout a month ago in Longevity
Defining Rest
Written by a human, for humans, always. I have had a great day of rest today. But depending on who you ask... What I've done in rest may not seem...
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHMabout a month ago in Longevity
The Reverse Jubilee Curse Of The Human Body
Written by a human, for humans, always. There is a podcast, The BibleProject, that I like to listen to that had a fascinating concept they discussed...
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM2 months ago in Longevity
He Drank Water for 20 Days.
He must have gone a long time without really looking at his own hands when he dialed 120. Those hands braced the floor when he fell. But without enough sugar and salt to maintain muscle tension, his elbows failed to lock. He went down sideways, his hip hitting the tile. He lay there. The ceiling didn't spin — his vestibular system was too exhausted even to bother producing dizziness. All that remained was silence.
By Jin2 months ago in Longevity