Good Running News of the Week
We at New York Road Runners are back with another edition of Good Running News of the Week. If you’re like us, you found out this week that quarantine will probably last even longer. We hope you are all staying safe and healthy, and we hope that this roundup brings you a smile.
Jenny Simpson’s puppy now has his own Instagram. About time, Truman. (Simpson herself is pictured above at an NYRR virtual running event.)
If you saw that good boy's face and thought, that's simply not going to be enough dog, you're in luck. Women’s Running wrote about the puppy boom among elite runners.
Abbott, the title sponsor of the World Marathon Majors and an NYRR partner, announced this week that it has developed a test that can detect the novel coronavirus in as little as five minutes.
GQ profiled Eliud Kipchoge.
A British man ran a marathon in his backyard and raised over $27,000 for charity.
Molly Huddle wrote in Runner’s World about using quarantine to improve as a runner when it’s hard, and maybe unsafe, to actually run.
Kaitlin Goodman had a rough Olympic Trials race that started with getting trampled and did not improve from there (she compared it to Simba caught in the wildebeest stampede in “The Lion King” on her Instagram). But she talked to Ali Feller on the Ali on the Run podcast about the experience, and it is a great discussion of how to cope with disappointment—something those of us whose spring races have been cancelled or postponed may be eager to hear.
Feller herself appeared on Mario Fraioli’s The Morning Shakeout podcast to give a great interview about the power of the running community during the Olympic Trials. It’s a good thing to hear now that most of us runners are doing our sport in isolation.
This is perhaps the most accurate tweet about quarantine we have seen so far.
People who are saying, “This will be over soon” are the same people who yell, “You’re almost there!” at mile 18 in a marathon.
— Kris ⚾️ (@runnerkristin) March 23, 2020