The List: Friday, August 22

What savvy runners will be talking about this weekend...

1. Hood to Coast, "the Mother of All Relays," which happens this weekend. (Pssst! We don't like to gossip, but: Apparently they don't know who the father is.)

2. Glenn Hartrick, the Ironman triathlete and 2:57 marathoner who appeared on the December 2012 cover of Runner's World. If you haven't heard what happened to Glenn in June, and what's happened since, you should.

3. The runner who saved two children in Brookline, Massachusetts, when their stroller rolled down a steep hill and into a reservoir. Heroic and utterly un-tragic, despite the fact that some called her a jogger.

4. The "best running song," which is under debate in this poll. Waste of time, really. Everyone know that this is the best running song:

5. Wearing shoes with no socks, which, in a bizarre and horrifying case, nearly killed a 12-year-old boy in the U.K. 

6. Wearing socks on the wrong feet, which can be nearly as horrifying.

7. Insane come-from-behind victories, such as the one from Floria Guei, of France, in the final leg of the 4x400 at the European Athletics Championships. Prepare to be stunned.

8. The Simpsons Marathon, which began Thursday. FXX is airing all 552 episodes back to back. I have been training for this marathon all my life.

9. This.


10. Satire, which is "dying, because the internet is killing it." [NOTE: This is not satire.] [Sadly.]

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