Chicago Marathon 2007! Ivuti + Gharib Fight To The Finish!

Patrick Ivuti and Jaouad Gharib race to the finish of the 2007 Chicago Marathon

How to Eat Cajun Delicacies with Running Back Matt Forte of the Chicago Bears

How to Eat Cajun Delicacies with Running Back Matt Forte of the Chicago Bears.

A Brotha Vs. A Bug, Mr. Chi-City Kicking some Insect A**

I had been out All Day, running errands and just doing what Chi-City does. i walked into my place, and I saw the biggest Damn INSECT I have ever seen in my LIFE. It Scared the hell out of me at first. And Im always real with yall, so dont act like you aint scared of bugs too. But it was cool, I just ended up whooping his ass…with one of my Crutches…lol More videos to come……Chi-City MAYNE!!!!…lol Click the LINK BELOW to Buy Mr. Chi-City T-Shirts…….. www.cafepress.com…

Life at Tulane with Running Back Matt Forte of the Chicago Bears

MOUTHPIECESPORTS.COM personality Mitch Robinson interviews Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte in the back of a stretch limousine. Mitch and Matt are heading out for a “taste of home” with the former Tulane player and Louisiana native at Heaven on Seven. Forte talks about his life at Tulane and how he hopes to make his alma mater proud. Go to www.mouthpiecesports.com for more coverage

Chicago Fitness

People in Chicago are very much concerned about their good health and fitness. In order to keep them fit and fine there are many fitness centers in Chicago. The Chicago fitness centers conduct consulting as well. The fitness consulting is made in schools, in many organizations, in business and in many other places as seminars. This fitness consulting is about just to bring awareness for the people to know how to keep them fit. Chicago Fitness centers concentrates on physical activity and in the exercise programs. Fitness classes like Aerobics, yoga, weight management, boot camp and many more fitness related classes are conducted by the trainers in Chicago. Here is a brief description on the various fitness methods that are undertaken in Chicago

Boot Camp:
Boot camp programs are arranged in an idea to bring motivation and enjoyment for the people who attend these camps for fitness. The basic idea behind this is people will not feel tired when they do exercises and other fitness programs in team work. The exercises that are done in the boot camp are the speed drills, maneuvers, some flexible movements and exercises based on the cardio vascular fitness. Since these are done in teams work all the members’ involvement will be there and competition in between the teams will make you achieve high goals.

Yoga:
The yoga is a wonderful fitness program which helps in controlling your mind, body and your spirit. In Chicago the awareness about yoga is increasing rapidly among people and many people choose yoga as the best and proper fitness program. Yoga basically helps in the personal development, helps in attaining a good health. Hatha yoga in Chicago is becoming more popular which helps in improving the strength, good flexibility and gives good strength for mind as well.

Weight Management:
Many people in United States have a problem of overweight. The weight management in Chicago is becoming a popular fitness program for one who wants to reduce their weight. The fitness centers in Chicago conducts a seminar on weight management to know better way on how to reduce their weight in natural and healthy way. The weight management program in Chicago also concentrates in healthy diet for the people. A proper intake and proper exercise helps in reducing the weight for sure. This is the concept of the weight management in Chicago.

Aerobics:
Aerobics is one of the fitness exercise program which is associated with the cardio zone. The Aerobics helps in improving the heart functionalities better. It helps in giving more energy and circulates the blood well all over the body. The aerobics helps in giving more fitness to health and mainly recommended for the people who suffer from heart diseases. Thus in Chicago majority of the people opts for aerobics to prevent themselves from heart diseases.

There are many fitness centers in each and every corner of the streets in Chicago. To know more about the fitness in Chicago, go to Chicago fitness for more details.

2009 Bank of America Chicago Marathon – Race Day

2009 Bank of America Chicago Marathon Mashup. Watch Sammy Wanjiru and other elite runners compete – aid station volunteers groove to the beat while they hand out fluid to runners – see motivational posters created by dedicated supporters – and more!
 

 

2008 Chicago Marathon

It was hot but everything went OK says 2008 Chicago Marathon race director Carey Pinkowski.

2007 Chicago Marathon

Heat makes the 2007 Chicago Marathon one to remember. Chicago Tribune video

2006 Chicago Marathon – How NOT to end a race!

Robert Cheruiyot wins Chicago Marathon 10/22/06 with a time of 2:07:35 but slips at finish line – OUCH! 10/24/06 Update: CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago Marathon winner Robert Cheruiyot left the hospital on Tuesday after spending two nights there with a mild concussion he sustained when he slipped at the finish line. The 28-year-old had sprinted away from fellow Kenyan Daniel Njenga during the final stretch of Sunday’s race when he slipped backward and banged his head, causing internal and external …

Everything You Know About Marathons Is Wrong

 

A researcher reported recently that he could find no relationship between dehydration and cramping.

By GINA KOLATA

Most runners have heard the marathon lore: Your time will be best if the weather on race day is about 55 degrees and overcast, or even drizzly. And avoid dehydration at all costs, because it will cause your muscles to cramp and you could collapse at the finish line.

But none of that is true, researchers said at a recent marathon medicine and science conference in Chicago.

The weather theory “needs adjusting,” said Scott J. Montain, a research physiologist at the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass.

“Most of what we know comes from the lay literature,” he said.

Thousands of runners are no doubt monitoring the weather forecast for Sunday, when the New York City Marathon makes its annual tour of the five boroughs. (As of yesterday, it looked promising, with temperatures expected to be in the upper 40’s and partially cloudy skies.) But the weather nostrums for marathoning that are cited so authoritatively in journal articles and textbooks are not always borne out in legitimate science. Montain and his colleagues set out to conduct a proper study.

They gathered data from 28 years of the New York City Marathon, 35 years of the Boston Marathon and 23 years of the marathons in Hartford, Vancouver, Duluth, Minn., and Richmond, Va. The routes for those marathons have barely changed over the years, and each had a large field — more than 10,000 runners. The investigators looked at the average times for the top three men and women, and at the times for the runners who placed 25th, 50th, 100th and 300th.

Elite runners ran fastest in the coldest conditions — 41 to 50 degrees. But the slowing effect with heat was not as great as had been previously reported. For every five-degree increase in temperature, times slowed by 0.4 percent.

Warmer weather had a greater effect on slower runners. On a 77-degree day, an elite runner would be about 5 percent slower than on a 41-degree day. But a runner who finished in three hours on a 41-degree day would be slowed by about 12 percent on a 77-degree day, finishing in 3 hours 21 minutes.

One reason, Montain said, could be that slower runners spend more time on the course, and the temperature generally rises through the day. Or it could be because slower runners tend to run with a larger pack. A tightly clustered group of runners generates heat and blocks it from dissipating.

Montain and his colleagues also looked at whether marathon times were better under sunny or overcast skies. Only 13 percent of records were set on cool and cloudy days.

“It is more likely that a record will be set when it is sunny or when there are scattered clouds,” Montain said. He is not sure why that is; perhaps sunny conditions put runners in a better mood, he suggested.

Then there is the issue of cramping, that often excruciating, spasmodic, involuntary contraction of muscles that can occur during or, more often, just after a marathon. It almost always involves the muscles that were used to run — the hamstrings or calf muscles, for example. And it can last a minute or two — or much longer.

Conventional wisdom says cramps are caused by dehydration and that the solution is to consume salt and drink more fluids. Not true, says Martin P. Schwellnus, a professor of sports medicine at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

At the conference in Chicago last month, he reported that he could find no relationship between dehydration and cramping. He has studied cyclists, marathoners and triathletes, measuring levels of electrolytes and body-weight changes, both of which are indicators of dehydration. Those who cramped were no different from those who did not.

Two other studies looked at how much weight ultramarathon runners and triathletes lost during races — a measure of fluid loss and a direct indicator of dehydration. Those who cramped lost no more weight than those who did not. If anything, Schwellnus said, those who did not have cramps were slightly more dehydrated.

The cause of cramps, Schwellnus believes, is an alteration in the electrical signals going to exhausted muscles so that the balance between those signals activating muscles and those inhibiting them is distorted. One way to protect yourself is with proper marathon training and proper pacing. “Racing at too high of an intensity is one of the single most important risk factors,” Schwellnus said.

When muscles cramp, there is a simple and effective treatment: stop running and stretch that muscle. And, Schwellnus said, realize that the cramping will soon stop.

“Almost no matter what you do, if you stop the activity, the muscle will come back to normal,” he said.

Beyond the finish line of every marathon are runners who feel dizzy, and some of them collapse. It is not as common as muscle cramps, but the condition can afflict up to about 5 percent of marathon runners, said Michael N. Sawka, head of the thermal and mountain medicine division at the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine. He wondered whether the cause could be dehydration, a commonly evoked mechanism.

Sawka looked at published studies. One compared 45 athletes who collapsed after an ultramarathon to 65 who completed the race and did not collapse. There were no obvious differences between the two groups: their body temperatures were the same (dehydration makes the temperature rise), as were their electrolyte levels. But those who collapsed were pushing themselves as hard as they could, were at or close to their personal records, or were medal winners in the race. Perhaps, Sawka said, “that final effort might contribute to collapse.”

The actual cause, though, does not appear to be dehydration, Sawka said. Instead, it is a pooling of blood in the lower legs and feet when vigorous exercise suddenly stops and the heart rate slows markedly.

Timothy Noakes, a professor of exercise and sports science at the University of Cape Town, said he had stopped giving intravenous fluids to collapsed runners.

“We completely changed the way we treat patients,” Noakes said. “All we do is have them lie down and put their feet higher than their head.”

Postmarathon collapse, Noakes added, “is a benign condition.”

“Just lift their legs and you will help the majority of patients,” he said. “That’s all you need to do to make most people recover very, very quickly. You can infuse as much fluid as you want, and you will not get the same response.”

 

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