A familiar voice said, “Today’s workout is 10 quarters at 62 [seconds]; jog a half lap [in between].” So onto the black cinder track at the U of Washington, we went. Off on the first interval I ran smoothly straight at the first curve, just before got ready, and then felt the lurch to the […]

For me, running these days, is a form of meditation. Essentially, I am running on automatic. To run faster, I have to think, “Run harder.” How do we actually run harder? What kind of a neural network helps to run faster? This post is largely borrowed from a Scientific American blog written by Scicurious and […]