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In May, the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah shipped a sample of live anthrax to commercial laboratories, including one in Maryland. This, the Department of Defense concluded, was part of a larger trend; 86 facilities in 20 states and seven other countries received live anthrax over the past 10 years, leaving 21 people on post-exposure prophylaxis.
Transfer of these hazardous pathogens, called 'select agents', is overseen by the Federal Select Agent Program at the Centers for Disease Control (FSAP). Tuesday's hearing aimed to address the weaknesses in FSAP that allowed the Dugway incident and others like it to take place.
"DOD and CDC had existing policies and procedures that addressed biosafety and biosecurity within their high-containment labs at the time the safety lapses occurred in 2014 and 2015," said Marcia Crosse, director of healthcare for the U.S. Government Accountability Office, in written testimony. However, she added, those lapses exposed weaknesses in those procedures.
Crosse said that while the CDC and DOD continue to develop new policies and procedures to tighten safety on high-contaminant labs, more oversight from the government is needed.
"The safety lapses of 2014 and 2015 continue to raise questions about the adequacy of federal biosafety and biosecurity policies and procedures and department and agency monitoring and evaluation activities, including appropriate levels of senior management involvement," concluded Crosse.
When a violation of the FSAP practices leads to a lapse in safety, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) coordinates with the CDC to gather facts and presents its findings to the appropriate agency. Because of this involvement, OIG testified about ways to improve FSAP.
"On the basis of our enforcement work, OIG has identified opportunities to strengthen FSAP that CDC should consider as it reviews how FSAP can be improved," testified Greg Demske, chief counsel to the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "In addition, OIG will continue to provide oversight through audits and evaluations of FSAP and use our CMP (Civil Money Penalty) authority to take enforcement actions."
These suggestions include saving documents longer, keeping records of more parts of the process of dealing with dangerous substances like anthrax and prohibiting the destruction of those documents. Additionally, OIG suggested considering using third parties to test the select agents for their viability to pose harm.
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Competition published on April 7, 2017.
When the victim seems perfect, is it the perfect crime?
On a bitterly cold winter's night, Liverpool is left stunned by a brutal murder in the grounds of the city's Anglican Cathedral. A killer is on the loose, driven by a chilling rage.
Put on the case, DS Nathan Cody is quickly stumped. Wherever he digs, the victim seems to be almost angelic – no-one has a bad word to say, let alone a motive for such a violent murder.
And Cody has other things on his mind too. The ghosts of his past are coming ever closer, and – still bearing the physical and mental scars – it's all he can do to hold onto his sanity.
And then the killer strikes again…
Reviewer Paul Burke approved:
"If you are looking for the kind of compulsive crime novel that will keep you gripped from start to finish look no further than Hope to Die. Jackson has written a white knuckle ride of a thriller, nuanced and twisty – it will keep you guessing all the way. The smooth flowing prose is both vivid and very evocative with real depth. The story is quicksand, the ground slips and shifts under your feet – you can't take anything for granted. More twists and turns than a cork screw – this is red herring heaven. It is a serial killer novel that is both original and grounded in the real world."
Read Paul's review of Hope to Die by in full here
**We have 2 copies of Hope to Die to give away – scroll down for your chance to win!**
We asked Paul to interrogate author David and he took us at our word…
PB: The backstory is always important for character development but Cody's has an intensity that really haunts his day to day existence and this murder investigation. Was that the original spur for the Cody books?
DJ: When I devised the series, I very much wanted Cody (and the other main characters) to 'grow' in each book. Many fictional cops have a traumatic past; the difference with Cody is that it is not as fully consigned to his past as he would like it to be. Its resurfacing means that he may one day get to confront his unknown attackers, but it also means that he will have to go through various ordeals to get there. I hope this all helps to add a richness to the books.
PB: I really enjoyed Hope To Die, I thought I knew where the story was going but the novel is more complex than I first realised. I had to constantly re-examine assumptions, did you intend to draw the reader in this way?
DJ: I do my best! I think the best stories are ones that make you think, feel and be surprised. If the reader always knows what's coming next, there is no tension, no challenge.
PB: Nathan Cody and several of the other characters feel very 'now', (e.g. the banter and relaxed dialogue), similarly they are ordinary, if conflicted, people. Was it important to get that realistic modern feel to the novel?
DJ: Definitely. In particular, I always try to inject a little humour here and there. Cops I have met in real life have a strong (and sometimes highly morbid) sense of humour; they probably wouldn't survive long in the job without one. When we see police officers on duty, it's sometimes easy to forget that they are normal human beings with their own personal issues.
PB: As a reader you know more than the police do in the early investigation, (they are chasing red herrings) but all is not as it seems, (the reader is constantly wrong footed). Is that layering key to involving the reader in the story?
DJ: Yes, I think the trick is to give the reader more information than is known by any individual character, and yet still manage to pull the rug out from beneath the reader's feet towards the end. Readers accept this as part of the genre rules, and are usually eager to rise to the challenge.
PB: Religion and upbringing are key themes in the book, do you think that the wider social context matters? Is a crime thriller social critique?
DJ: I certainly don't set out to proselytise in my books. As mentioned above, however, I do think it's my job to make readers feel emotions and ponder issues. If the issues are big enough, then they are probably relevant to society as a whole. That said, a story about one person or small group of people should not necessarily be construed to be a commentary about the wider population.
PB: I liked that the police are sometimes stumbling in the dark, a little dysfunctional, heart in the right place, stressed. Do you think that represents the reality of a complex murder investigation?
DJ: I'm sure it is. It still constantly surprises me that, even with the vast array of technology now at their disposal, the police still make some fundamental errors in investigations. They are, after all, only human.
PB: Camilleri writes about the dark side of Sicily, crime corruption and murder but he clearly loves the place. The Cody series is set in Liverpool, do you want the reader to get a feel for the place as more than just the backdrop to the story?
DJ: Absolutely. With any location, a cop out is to name some streets and buildings and hope that it's enough to add authenticity. Some authors don't even bother to go that far. A city like Liverpool is very much a character in itself, and I hope that my love for the place comes across in my writing.
PB: I felt compassion for the killer, (the barbershop incident is both chilling and heart breaking), did you want to create a character, not just plausible but one you could empathise with, (a lot of serial killers are great creations but often composite or comic book)?
DJ: I'm glad you felt the compassion, so thank you for that. My view is that nobody is one hundred per cent good or bad. In particular, most villains don't see themselves as evil, and to write them as such is to end up with caricatures like something out of a Batman comic or Bond movie. When I create an antagonist, I like to know why they behave that way, and revealing these reasons to the reader gives them far more depth.
PB: There are contrasts in the novel between light witty passages and tense gripping darkness. Do you think that contrast reinforces the power of the story?
DJ: I believe so. The power of darkness is most potent when juxtaposed with light. I hate novels that start dark and just get unremittingly darker; it becomes boring. And, as I said above, real life has both sides of the coin. I suspect it's difficult for most of us to recall a recent conversation in which at least one person didn't toss in an attempt at humour, however serious that discussion. This is particularly true of Liverpool-based novels, where a failure to incorporate wit would simply not be realistic.
PB: The Callum Doyle series was set in New York and now Cody is set in Liverpool, your hometown. Was it easier writing about Liverpool as it is in your blood?
DJ: I think that's fair to say. I feel a great affinity for New York, and have read extensively and watched an uncountable number of programmes about the city, but it's not my birthplace or my home. I think that fact accounts for important differences between the two series. Although both are crime thrillers, the Doyle series is more 'Hollywood' in nature, whereas the Cody series focuses more on the life of the city and its people.
PB: You say in your afterword that this will be an ongoing series. Do you see DS Nathan Cody having the longevity of a Rebus, Roy Grace, or DCI Banks?
DJ: I hope so. I've invested a lot in these characters, and they have many more stories to tell. Unfortunately, it's not entirely in my hands!
PB: A lot of TV detectives feel a bit old hat, Hope to Die would be a breath of fresh air, any chance that something might be on the horizon?
DJ: Thank you. I'd love to see something adapted for TV, but I'm also aware that so many books get optioned and so very few of them get produced. We shall see.
PB: I see that you sometimes run workshops for writers, do you think everyone has a novel in them?
DJ: Possibly, but like the old joke says, in many cases that's where they should stay! I think many things about creative writing are teachable, but not everything. I can't teach talent and I can't teach dedication to the craft. I certainly can't teach how to get lucky, and a big part of success in this business is luck.
PB: I remember Ian Rankin said something about Scandinavian crime fiction not being better but having better PR. Do you think British crime fiction is in a good place? Does what other writers do matter?
DJ: I wouldn't argue with the great Mr Rankin. Any country's fiction is neither better nor worse than the others; it is merely different. These differences arise from geography, culture, history and standards of living, but a good book is a good book, irrespective of origin. Book-buying does go through fads, though. Next year, I'm banking on it being books from the north of England.
Many thanks to both for their time.
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About the author
David Jackson is the author of a series of crime thrillers featuring New York Detective Callum Doyle. His debut novel, Pariah, was Highly Commended in the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Awards. When not writing fiction, David spends his time as a lecturer in a university science department. He also gives occasional workshops on creative writing. He lives on the Wirral peninsula with his wife and two daughters.
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Hope to Die by David Jackson, published by Zaffre on 6 April, 2017, in hardback
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The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. "For otherwise," they said, "we will all die!" 34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing. 35 The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.36 The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38 Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
Chaos abounds at my home right now. The movers come in just a few days to load all of our possessions on a truck to move us hundreds of miles away from our home of over thirty years. To say that I have had moments of being overwhelmed may be a bit of an understatement. So much junk…so little time….where am I going to put it all?! The home we are moving to is a fixer-upper….. big time. We will be living amongst boxes for quite sometime while major construction goes on around us. Presently the new abode is without heat, AC, hot water, a working shower or bath. On the other hand the home has an abundance of bats, leaking roof and gutters, windows painted shut, clogged pipes, haphazard wiring, and dirt…lots and lots of dirt.
In the midst of what seems to me to be an enormous task I am reminded of the move the Israelites made from Egypt to the Promised Land. Moses organized a move of six hundred thousand men! If each man had one wife and 2.3 (okay, round it to 3) children plus the livestock to sustain them, that is more people and animals then I am willing to do the math to figure out! Making such a major move and change at this stage of our lives gives me some perspective to appreciate the logistics with which Moses had to work in order to move such a mass of humanity. Can you begin to fathom just the noise level? The questions? The dust?
Moses trusted God with the move of an entire nation. I will choose to trust the Lord with our move. You can trust the Lord with your move/change/journey too. Read it for yourself; it is all right there in Exodus…amazing.


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WASHINGTON (Circa) - Rail cars loaded with nearly ten million pounds of human feces are stranded in Parrish, Alabama, according to a report by CNN.
According to the report, the cars have been left on the rails for two months, and the smell is permeating through the town. The excrement doesn't even belong to residents; it was hauled in from a waste management facility in the New York/New Jersey Metro area.
READ MORE: Three-year-old found covered in feces living in hotel with mom, 3 dogs
The cars were heading to Big Sky Environmental a large privately owned landfill in Adamsville, but a neighboring town filed an injunction preventing the train and its waste from being stored in a railyard, according to CNN. The order was passed, and the train and its cars were transported to the town of Parrish.
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"The fewer children with head lice, the fewer children giving them to others." ~ Deborah Altschuler, NPA President
Newton, MA (PRWEB) September 01, 2016
September kicks off NPA's annual educational campaign, which will last the whole year long.
The non-profit National Pediculosis Association's http://www.headlice.org mission is to inform parents and help them learn how to avoid exposing their children to risky pesticides marketed for children with head lice. Pediculosis, the medical term for lice, is an unfortunate yet predictable part of raising children today.
This year's CombFirst! Campaign offers a new educational video called "Don't let head lice catch you or your children by surprise" and shares NPA's recommended public health approach.
Head lice are highly communicable little parasites that feed on the blood of all human races and ethnic backgrounds. The increasingly relaxed school head lice policies urge parents to chase away head lice with risky chemicals and keep actively infested children in the classroom. These are attendance policies -- not health policies. There's nothing healthy about asking a parent to shampoo a child with pesticides. There's also nothing healthy about an endemic state of lice among kids.
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1. Learn how to accurately identify and screen for head lice and their eggs (nits) in advance of outbreaks. Informed parents who make screening part of routine grooming can send their children to school free of lice and nits. Read NPA's Deceptive Dozen so you are prepared with accurate information.
2. Strive to be first to detect lice and eggs in your child's hair. This is the way to avoid the "Your child has lice" phone call from school. While important and helpful to be notified, it's uncomfortable for parents to hear that someone else noticed their child had lice before they did. More important, when parents are first to notice lice, they are able to remove them before sending their child to school and potentially infecting others.
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text: Governor Signs Amendment to Tennessee Data Breach Notification Law Firm Publication Publications May 24, 2017 During the recent 110th Regular Session of the Tennessee General Assembly, Governor Bill Haslam signed into law an amendment to the Tennessee Identity Theft Deterrence Act of 1999.1 The previous version of the law required any person or business that conducts business in the state of Tennessee and that owns or licenses computerized personal information of Tennessee residents to notify such residents whose personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person. These persons or businesses were required to notify affected Tennessee residents within 45 days following discovery or notification of a breach, provided that a law enforcement agency may delay this notification requirement if it determines that notification would impede a criminal investigation. This amendment, which unanimously passed both chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly: Clarifies that notification to affected Tennessee residents of a data breach must be made within 45 days following a determination by the applicable law enforcement agency that notification will not compromise the investigation; Adds exceptions to the definition of "personal information" for (i) information that has been redacted or otherwise made unusable, and (ii) encrypted information, provided that the encryption key for such information has not been acquired by an unauthorized person; and Changes the definition of an "unauthorized person" from "an employee of the information holder who is discovered by the information holder to have obtained personal information and intentionally used it for an unlawful purpose" to "an employee of the information holder who is discovered by the information holder to have obtained personal information with the intent to use it for an unlawful purpose." The exception of encrypted information from the definition of protected personal information is consistent with similar breach notification statutes in other states and is a welcome confirmation of the scope of the statute. However, the change to the definition of "unauthorized person", for example, raises new uncertainties not previously present. The revised definition of "unauthorized person" appears to obligate employers to provide notification when an employee obtains personal information and intends to use it unlawfully, but has not yet done so. This raises the issue of whether the act of obtaining, but not using, the personal information could alone constitute a "material" compromise of the "security, confidentiality, or integrity of the personal information" and thereby trigger a breach notification obligation. If the latter is true, this change in the definition of "unauthorized person" may greatly expand required notifications under this law. Bass, Berry & Sims will continue to monitor and provide updates as we track privacy legislation and regulations. If you have questions regarding the potential effects of this legislation or any other privacy concerns relating to your organization, please contact an attorney on our Privacy & Data Security team. 12017 Tenn. Pub. Acts 91.


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While he was employed as a contractor for the Department of Defense in Iraq, his duty consisted of mounting and dismounting infantry operations in combat zones. He also instructed U.S Military personnel in tactical situations, post-blast analysis, evidence collection, hostage rescue and interrogation of captured individuals. When he was in law enforcement, he worked ten years with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and three with St. Louis County Police Department. He spent the last seven years in law enforcement on the St. Louis Metropolitans HRT team. He became a team leader in 2003 and a certified instructor in SWAT/URBAN warfare tactics, tactical rife and defensive tactics. His team was involved in more than 250 High-Risk Entries, hostage situations, and barricaded subjects. While his Unit was not deployed, they were responsible for investigations into the trafficking of narcotics, gang activity, and illegal gun possession. The Unit also acted as WMD Response Team and Civil Disobedience Team.
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Savagery! Portlanders embrace illegal cockfights
Gareth Davis Sr, Gleaner Writer
Spring Bank, Portland:
Despite being illegal, one of the cruellest and bloodiest sports, cock-fighting, is alive and well in Portland.
Most Sunday afternoons, dozens of persons journey to different locations to wager on domestic birds pecking the life out of each other.
The illicit sport provides income for not only the owner of roosters, but also the pundits, who wager anything from $100 to $10,000 in a gruelling contest between two domestic birds engaged in a battle for supremacy and survival.
"This is what I live off," Glendon, a trainer, told The Gleaner.
"I know it is illegal, but what else can we do? We can't get any work, and I am not into stealing. I simply buy the roosters at an early age and I condition them myself," Glendon said.
He added: "I ensure that they are given food, tonic, and vitamins, and they are also trained to be swift and to be on the alert. I spend a tidy sum getting them to the stage for fighting, but with each victory, it becomes very rewarding," he added.
According to Glendon, he has lost many roosters during fights over the years, and many have also suffered serious injuries and have had to be put to sleep. He said that the meat is not wasted as it is later curried or brown-stewed for lunch or dinner.
In the lead-up to a fight, the birds are placed in their respective classes to compete based on their weight. Spurs are attached to their feet to enhance their ability to inflict a lethal strike on their opponent. They are then placed in a ring with their owners and are paraded, while wagering is carried out.
During one of the most deadliest and brutal fights witnessed by The Gleaner, a rooster, who goes by the name 'Crash Turn', had his opponent against the ropes and on the run, with the man shouting loudly, "Gwaan, Crash Turn! Kill him, Crash Turn!"
But in a twist of fate, the battered rooster somehow recovered, despite his bloody and battered condition, and started pounding Crash Turn, who started to run around the ring for dear life.
But what took place afterwards came as a shock to dozens of patrons seated in the grandstand at Spring Bank. The losing owner, obviously angered by the loss, gently lifted up the victorious bird and handed him to its owner before returning to ring and giving the defeated Crash Turn a vicious kick, which sent the animal crashing into the side fencing.
The man's action was condemned by the crowd, which lashed out at him for the cruel action against the animal.
Shortly afterwards, he exited the venue with Crash Turn in hand. The rooster appeared to be more dead than alive.
Cockfighting is held in several other communities in Portland, including Fellowship, Berrydale, Nonesuch, Moore Town, Windsor Forest, Snow Hill, and Mount Pleasant. It is a thriving sport, which also attracts professional males and females, along with ordinary residents, as spectators.
However, the sport operates in contravention of the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1904, which was last amended in 1995. Under the law, every person who, by willful negligence, causes any injury or suffering to any animal, is guilty of a crime.
Persons who, in any manner, encourage, aid, or assist at the fighting or baiting of any bull, dog, cock or other kind of animal, whether domestic or wild, or keep or use or act in the management of any place to be used for the purpose of fighting or baiting any such animals are also guilty of an offence.
The law also places culpability on owners or occupiers of premises who permit any place to be so used for activities like cockfighting. The reach of the law also extends to persons who receive money for the admission of any other person to any place kept or used for such activities. Persons convicted of enabling cockfights could be jailed for up to three months.


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NAME: Bekki Callaway
MENTOR: Suzanne Palmieri
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PITCH: When Stephanie was six, she watched her older sister drown. Twenty years later she returns home, unearthing secrets that throw into doubt everything she knows about her family. When a date-rape leaves her pregnant, Stephanie realizes the only way she can keep - and love - the baby is by forgiving her parents' failings and her own guilt over her sister's death. But can she?
There are two things I remember very clearly from the house on the beach where we lived when I was a child. The first is the sound of the ocean crashing against the rocks in our backyard. The second is the day my sister Sarah drowned.
The house adhered to no ordinary notions of architecture. Strangely shaped windows, set at odd heights and inlaid with bits of ocean-colored glass, punctuated the walls. A doorway in the back opened onto nothing at all, and had to be locked tight to keep small children from tumbling twenty feet down. It was a house of twists and turns, of unexpected rooms, and, on her good days, my mother's laughter.
We lived there until right after my sixth birthday, when my parents announced that we were moving to Granada, Spain. As the stack of boxes in the living room grew, my mother's smile became brighter, my father's laugh more frequent. The only one who wasn't happy was my sister. Sixteen and stormy, Sarah was convinced that my parents were trying to ruin her life. Some days, she and my mother would scream at each other so loudly I could still hear them with a pillow pressed against my ears. Others, she spent with her boyfriend Rob at the beach. When she let me, I followed her from room to room, like a kitten tracking a square of sunlight across the floor.
That afternoon, the afternoon Sarah drowned, was clear and sunny and almost hot.
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Here's a request from Elise Capron:
I'd be interested in seeing your material. Please send your query letter, mentioning that I requested this on Pitch Wars, a synopsis, and your bio to elise at dijkstraagency dot com. Thank you, and looking forward. Elise Capron, Dijkstra Agency.
- January 23, 2013 at 12:55 PM
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For Elise Capron's request, could you please include the first 15 pages and embedded all in the body of the query, please?
Sorry for psyching you out thinking you got another request. o.O
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There seems to be tremendous interest right now in the health effects of sugar in our diets. Many people say that it is sugar, rather than fat, that is leading people to be overweight. Documentaries like "Fed Up" talk about both the addictive nature of sugar and how the idea of "eating better and exercising more" makes little sense when the environment makes it practically impossible to eliminate sugar additives from your diet in the first place. No matter how hard you try, the deck is simply stacked against you, so the thinking goes. So 21 days ago I set ...
NAIROBI, March 21 (Xinhua) — Kenya will send a team to participate in the marathon competition of the Beijing Olympic Games, said the head of the Kenya National Olympic Committee following a statement from the Ethipoian world marathon record holder Haile Gebrselassie that he intends to opt out of the marathon in Beijing.
"It is an individual decision up to himself (Gebrselassie). We will send Kenyan runners for the marathon competition of the Beijing Olympics. It will have no problem," said Dr Kipchoge Keino, IOC member and also Chairman of Kenya National Olympic Committee, in an exclusive interview with Xinhua on Thursday.
Gebrselassie, who won two Olympic gold medals in 10,000 meters in Atlanta and Athens, told western media on March 10 that he will not compete in the Beijing Olympic marathon because the city's air pollution may damage his health. But the Ethiopian runner said he would still take part in the 10,000 meters of the global sports fiesta.
"I have gone to Beijing several times and never experienced anything. We wish the weather condition will be good during the Games and I am sure the Chinese government and people will make all the possible efforts to make the Olympics a success, including the air quality," said the former Olympic gold medalist.
An analysis of Bejing's air quality indicates that the health of the vast majority of athletes competing in the summer Olympic Games will not be impaired, said the IOC on Monday after studying a set of air quality data taken by the Beijing Environment Protection Bureau in August 2007.
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A reader in Australia asked me great question today. Here's a bit of the e-mail:
". . .how do I get myself to finish a marathon after hitting the 20 mile wall when there are minimal spectators to cheer me on? The two times I ran [marathons in Chicago] I found out how significant the crowd's participation was to me and my running especially after the 20 mile mark.
In Chicago we had a million spectators to keep the runners going. I am now living in Australia and it's the opposite here."
There are two pieces to this question: 1) hitting the wall at 20 miles and then 2) staying motivated late in a marathon with limited crowd support.
The wall: to hit it or not!
What I love about this question is that it presumes that runners will "hit the wall" at some point late in a marathon. The later stages of a marathon are always going to be tough, but the ultimate goal of practiced marathon runners is to avoid hitting the wall at all. Yes, late in the marathon, the pace should be feeling progressively more difficult. However, the ultimate goal should be to run out of gas AT the finish-line, not at mile 20.
Let's look at "the wall" a little more. This expression bears some real truth to anyone who's ever had it happen to them. At some point late in a race, it feels as if they've run smack into a wall. Their energy level drops significantly and they simply can't run consistently any longer. Runners that have hit the wall, are grumpy, frustrated, tired, and sometimes even angry. But more than anything, they usually just want to get the race over with and they will usually continue to walk or jog to get there. Those last miles of a marathon after hitting the wall are not much fun. You may run 100 yards, or maybe a quarter of a mile, but then it's often back to walking. Usually runners experience "the wall" between miles 18 and 22.
Who put that wall there anyway?
When runners hit that sudden stop late in the race, there are both physical and mental factors at play. For the most part, in my opinion, the wall is primarily attributable to three physical factors: pacing, nutrition and hydration. To boil it down, you've probably run too fast, run out of calories or depleted your fluids – or a combination of all three. That quick final drop in energy, when you feel as though you've run smack into a wall, is the point that you've finally exhausted the last of your remaining carbohydrate stores and your muscles just don't have the fuel that they need to fire any longer.
This physical wall is then avoidable. It starts with a true understanding of your pace. When you're running an even-pace, that is also your correct pace in the marathon, the pace will feel harder and harder throughout the race. It should feel easy in the first 10-12 miles then start feeling progressively harder. By mile 18 it should start feeling pretty tough, and in those last miles you should be "hanging on" but STILL RUNNING your pace or very near it. If you've really nailed your pace, then the analogy I like to give is that you'll run out of gas right AT the finish line. This means that you've given your maximum effort – you couldn't have gone one more step at that pace – and it should be your fastest possible marathon time as well. It does not mean sandbagging the pace in the first half, but rather knowing the pace you can evenly sustain for the entire 26.2 miles and then executing precisely on that target pace.
Note: this assumes that your goal is to run your marathon as fast as possible. There may be many other reasons to run a marathon that have little to do with going your fastest and it should be noted that this is simply one way of looking at this pacing question.
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It's on the brain
With all of that said, there are mental aspects to the late miles of the race as well. If you think carefully about what I just wrote, I said that it should be getting progressively harder to run the same pace throughout the race.
Think of yourself doing push-ups for a minute. When you're doing push-ups, each one feels a little bit harder. You start to feel like you weigh 500 pounds. You don't, in fact, weigh any more than you did when you starting doing your push-ups. The reason you feel heavier is that your muscles are getting fatigued. This is the same thing that's happening in a marathon. After taking thousands and thousands of steps, your muscles are getting fatigued and each step just starts to feel a whole later harder.
Some of the people that I work with call these late miles the "bite me" stage of the race. It's the time when they're still running, but it's getting really darn hard and if you ask them how they're doing they're most likely going to chew your head off. This is the point when a good strategy for dealing with the late miles of the race comes in. And it also gets us back to the second part of the question.
Staying motivated late in a race with limited crowd support
Once you've entered the "bite me" zone and you're running on fumes, your primary job is to find a way to keep yourself going. Some people really thrive on the support of crowds, while others will want music, or the support of family, or they may just want to quietly struggle through by themselves.
The reader asking the question said that she got something special from the support of the crowds. The question here is WHAT are you drawing from the crowd to keep you moving late in the race? That's hard to say, but I might venture to guess that it is in part a distraction from the pain and anguish that you're feeling in your body. And, in part, it's a sense of pride that people are cheering you on as you're moving toward your goal. There could be other reasons too, I suppose. I've had people express to me before that they felt almost embarrassed to stop and walk in front of spectators, even though they desperately wanted to walk.
This question is something to reflect on: what is it that YOU were getting from these crowds that you need to replace?
From there, I think the next most important thing to find is what really motivates YOU to keep moving. Something got you out there on that marathon course in the first place. Late in the race, you should be pulling out that original motivation and reminding yourself why you're there. Nike uses the term "power song" to talk about a piece of music that gets runners pumped. I'd say that you need to find your "power nugget" – that little piece of motivation that will keep you going and then concentrate on that. For example, when you're feeling the bite me blues, you might think about all of the training that you did to get this far, how much fun and enjoyment you get from your training, or how far you've come in your health or weight to get this far.
Here are some other strategies that you might want to try:
Control your focus – you own your focus. If you're focusing on the pain, you're amplifying it. Take your mind elsewhere.
Focus on your form – Instead of concentrating abstractly on keeping moving, think about your arm movements, your body position, your cadence or your breathing. Try to identify something to focus on for awhile and keep your mental energy there.
Break the problem down – rather than thinking about finishing the last six miles, think about getting through the next ten minutes or getting to the next mile marker. Your mind may do better focusing on a smaller part of the total task.
Think about something else – Once I was escorting a runner who was in a seriously bad place so we played a game together. I let her ask me a personal question every time we passed a mile-marker. She got so wrapped up in thinking about the questions that she wanted to ask me that the miles clicked by before we knew it.
Give yourself goals and try to meet them – if you set a goal to run the marathon in X hours and X minutes, and if this is a reasonable goal for you, pull that goal out in the closing miles and remember it. If you don't really have a goal to focus on late in the race, it's easy to default to "I just want to finish" and let yourself slow down or take breaks.
Pull out that mental nugget – when the going gets tough, pull out that ultimate motivator and focus on it.
Eat – if your brain is really in the bite-me zone, take in some more calories. Your brain needs food too.
Truthfully, what motivates each of you late in a race is different, but something does motivate you. You wouldn't make it through those lonely 20 mile training runs by yourself, if you didn't have something pushing you. It may feel harder on race day, but try to think about it from just the opposite view-point. It's harder, because you're doing something unique and special and that you don't get to do very often.
Try to think about how great it is on race day. This day is the one day, or maybe one of two or three days in a year, that define you as a marathon runner. You've devoted so much of your time to training, but race-day lets you validate that and be proud of what you've done. Get excited about the fact that you're challenging yourself and that you're ultimately going to win the challenge.
And just keep going.
Your questions and comments are always welcomed!
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Coach Joe English, Portland Oregon USA
Yesterday afternoon I received the most amazing text from my friend Karl Johnson. The message read:
"40 miles, 8 hours and 16 minutes. Time to taper and binge drink for a month . . . just not in that order. Work is going to be awesome in the morning."
What is amazing about this message is not the distance or the time; it's not the content itself. It's the subtle message that he did this alone and that no one was there to see him finish.
He ran more than a marathon – almost double the distance of a marathon – but not one person was there to clap for him or give him a high-five.
He earned neither a medal nor a belt-buckle. He gets no "credit" for this enormous effort from those around him. The run becomes simply the subject of a text message and an entry into his training journal.
But just because no one saw it and his friends and co-workers won't understand what it means, he does get credit from some: me and all the other runners out there that understand that training for marathons and ultras is about more than medals and crowds and rock bands and cheerleaders.
Someone I know didn't get this recently. She didn't understand that the training is THE experience. Race day is just the moment in time that puts finality to it. The training is the part that makes us grow as people. The race is simply the moment when the external world puts a check mark in its book and marks us off for having completed another event.
Without fanfare Karl checks off another marathon in his book: a quiet, solitary trek through the woods that only he can fully understand. No one will ever experience his journey in the same way that he did yesterday. No one will ever experience that day in just the way that he did. And that's what makes it special.
The next time that you're running 18 miles in the dark or running by yourself in rain so hard that you can't see, I want you to remember that the training is what it is all about.
Your friends won't understand these moments, and you may not either. But these are the times that make finishing races worthwhile. They are the moments that give the fanfare meaning.
So even though there was no fanfare for Karl yesterday when he finished his run, when he crosses the finish-line later this month in his next big race, he will know that he earned it. No matter what happens that day, he will have a rich, deep victory, knowing that he did what he needed to do to prepare. And he can enjoy the adulation that will come from checking that race off in the books.
But we will all know that the race was more than just one day. The race is the end of a series of chapters that led up to that day; chapters rich with stories and meaning of their own.
Way to go Karl. You've earned your taper (and your Bud Light) now.
Coach Joe
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What does it feel like to run a marathon? I've often said that I can't put it into words or describe it. That it's just something that you have to experience to understand.
Anyone that has ever run a marathon understands this immediately. It's something that you can't put your finger on.
Running a marathon has an impact on you as a person. The impact is emotional and physical. It's indescribable, because it operates on many levels. Running a marathon leaves a mark on you.
What makes the marathon unique is that it pushes you beyond your comfort zone. It takes you to a place that isn't comfortable. It isn't fun. It hurts. Yet, you still keep moving forward, because you have a tangible goal in your sights. The marathon is unique, because it takes us to a place that feels bad and ends up delivering us to a place that feels good.
Think about it for a minute. There are lots of things that you could do that might make you feel uncomfortable. You could try to eat 12 dozen Crispy Cream donuts in one sitting. That will certainly make you feel uncomfortable. But at some point you would just stop eating them. You'd say to yourself, "now why I am I doing this again?" And you'd probably stop. But that doesn't happen in a marathon.
In a marathon you get to a point where things hurt. You want to stop. You want to lay down on the ground and take a nap. You think about how happy you'll be to be done. You're basically in misery. But those are the moments when your body keeps driving you. You turn on your auto-pilot and keep moving, because you know that you'll get where you're going eventually and when you cross that finish-line you'll be done.
It's that point when the body takes over and the mind just has to hang on for the ride that makes the experience so unique.
And there's nothing magic about 26.2 miles. The distance itself is somewhat arbitrary. But it has been accepted through modern history as a benchmark for endurance. 26.2 miles is further than it takes for most everyone to feel the pain, and the burn, and the discomfort. If you make it that far, you have had the experience of running through the discomfort and persevering.
For some people that pain will start at mile 5 or mile 10 or mile 18. Everyone will push through their comfort zone in a different way. But they will all feel it. Even those few people that are blessed with bodies that cruise through the miles with ease feel it, because they push themselves harder and try to go faster. But they still feel it. We all feel it.
Anyone that has ever completed a marathon understands what I'm talking about. You've been pushed to the edge of discomfort, gone past it, and kept going. And that's what's so indescribable about the experience. We can't individually describe the pains and discomfort we feel, but we all know that pushing through that wall to cross that finish line is what leaves the mark on us.
And once we've felt it, we want to go through it again. Maybe not tomorrow or next week, but we know that we need to do it again in our lives.
The marathon allows us to prove to ourselves that we can persevere.
Keep on pushing my friends.
Coach Joe
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I always love it when I find something that would be inspiring to runners in a movie or book. Here's something that I think is fitting for both veteran and beginners marathon runners out there. I love how it speaks to our long adventure and the fact that we are seeking something – and perhaps we aren't quite clear what it is.
This is a speech by a character in the film "O Brother Where Art Thou?", which is an interpretation of Homer's The Odyssey set in Depression Era Mississippi. The character is a blind prophet, talking to three escaped prisoners who are at the beginning of a long journey.
"You seek a great fortune, you three who are now in chains…
…And you will find a fortune – though it will not be the fortune you seek…
…But first, first you must travel – a long and difficult road – a road fraught with peril, uh-huh, and pregnant with adventure.
You shall see things wonderful to tell.
You shall see a cow on the roof of a cottonhouse, uh-huh, and oh, so many startlements…
…I cannot say how long this road shall be.
But fear not the obstacles in your path, for Fate has vouchsafed your reward.
And though the road may wind, and yea, your hearts grow weary, still shall ye foller the way, even unto your salvation."
Isn't that great. Check out the film is you haven't seen it. It's hillarious.
Do you have a favorite passage in a film that might speak to runners? Share it here by commenting on this post if you like.
Coach Joe
It's almost marathon time and lots of marathon runners out there are starting to be nervous about their races. If I had a way to peek into their brains and read their thoughts, this is probably what I'd hear: "OOOOOHHHHH XXXX!!!!" You pick the expletive to fill in for the XXXXs.
The truth is that we all get anxious coming into a marathon. There are a lot of reasons for this. For one thing, if this is your first marathon, then you have a lot of doubt about the outcome. You've never run this far and every time you've told someone you were running a marathon, they gave you that look like, "really, that's soooo far!"
But there's more to it than that. You've spent four or five months preparing for the event. How many things have you put that much energy into? Maybe your wedding if you got married or maybe a big exam. And you were probably nervous as all heck on those days when they finally arrived.
You've been training, and hoping, and struggling, and succeeding, and failing and doing all kinds of things getting ready for your marathon. And it's all building up in your head. The one thing that I can say without a doubt is that the vast majority of marathon runners, first time or twentieth, think about their upcoming event probably many times each day in the week before the race – it's basically always on their minds and in their thoughts.
Oh and yes, there's that competitive thing too. We all have goals (which are a good thing), but there's that word "race" that goes along with the event. And there's that big clock, and talk of timing chips, and cut-off times, and time-limits, and pace groups. So even if we are not overtly thinking about being competitive like the faster runners up front, competition is creeping into our thinking by our very human nature.
Are you nervous yet?
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Every once in awhile I get a reminder. A reminder that things are not going to go as well as I planned.
Yesterday morning I was running along a quite trail in the woods. I have to admit, I wasn't really enjoying myself. I was a little tight, and hot, and maybe a bit grumpy. But I was running and the running was helping my mood. I wasn't enjoying my shoes, a pair that need to go back to the running store. But I was still running and that's a good thing.
Then in an instant, I caught the toe of my shoe on a piece of wood. I was airborne for a mere second and then came down like the 180 pound sack of bricks that I am.
I recall the sound, "Ka clunk".
Nothing had broken my fall at all. I had landed from four feet in the air, laid out flat on the trail. The only thing that may have come close to breaking my fall were three fingers, which had been bent underneath my hand as I hit the ground.
One moment I was going eight miles an hour, the next I'm laying on the ground in the dirt.
I rolled over and took inventory of my body parts. My fingers were bleeding at the knuckles. The fronts on my quads were stained with the streaks of dirt that I had passed across as I decelerated to a stop. My knees and ankles were scratched and bleeding too.
I sat up and just stayed there in the trail for a minute. I felt like I had been whacked by some unseen cosmic baseball bat.
After a few minutes, I stood up and wobbled around a bit. I was sort of dazed and I thought that my fingers were broken. I started to think about what to do next. I was three miles from the road.
I started walking and then running slowly. My knees were complaining and my fingers bleeding, but I started up the engine and soon I was a running again.
Just like that, every once in awhile I get whacked in the face. I get a reminder that it can all be taken away in an instant. It's at those moments that I have to pick myself back up and get right back to running again. Its my way of declaring that I am not going to stop. That I can run; and that I will run on.
You'll get reminders too. Not all of them will be as dramatic. They may be something as subtle as a pulled muscle or a case of the flu. But when you're staring one of these reminders in the face, remember first that you are a runner.
When you can run, run. Run with all your might.
Get right back up and run again. Some people might call these things "obstacles", but we can take them and turn them into something important: reminders of how great it is to run at all.
Keep on running my friends.
Coach Joe
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I was up early this morning running in Forest Park here in Portland. It's a beautiful section of woods that starts right on the edge of the city and stretches for miles. The longest running path, a single-track trail reserved for pedestrians, meanders for 26.3 miles from one end to the other. Enough for some pretty long trail runs. As you move along through the green forest, it's hard not be inspired to keep on running.
Something started me thinking about the many stories I've heard about how far runners have been able to take themselves. Whether they run across the Sahara Desert, run marathons on the Great Wall of China, or push through longer and longer ultra-endurance challenges, people are constantly upping the ante of the endurance challenge. People seem to be going further and further all of the time.
I wondered if there is something different in people today that allows them complete these amazing challenges. I don't really think so. Sure there are some societal things that may give us more freedom and flexibility to take on bigger and bigger goals. And there are new technologies that help us as we attempt them. But people are still physically people.
Fundamentally, our ability to go further seems to me to lie in our motivation and drive as humans. You see, we have the experience of all of the people who have tried before us as our guide. When we read about someone succeeding at some amazing feat, this gives us the imagination to think that maybe we could do something like that as well. And whether it's running a first marathon or running across the United States, it's this spark in our imagination and the comfort that others have gone before that allow us to try for ourselves – and to push the envelope even further.
It seems to me that we may never know how far people can go, because if we fail, we'll just try again. And we'll keep trying until we get the job done. We do this in science, in the exploration of the universe, and we do it in looking for the limits of human endurance.
I came home from my run today and found an e-mail in my box from a friend passing along a new World Record to me. Her husband's brother had just been certified as the official holder of the record for "the shortest overall time to complete a marathon on each of the seven continents." In Feburary and March 2007, Richard Takata ran marathons in Germany, Japan, New Zeland, the USA, Egypt, Spain, Antarctica, Argentina and Cyprus. And he did all of this in 29 days. His inspiration: to raise money for charity.
Another example, I think, of how far we can go. But is this the end? Certainly not. Someone will hear this story – maybe it will be you – and it will create a spark of wonder to try something new. If you set your mind to something and are knocked back, just keep trying. And keep those sparks flying. It will be amazing to see where we go next.
Coach Joe
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I love the way music can set the mood and stimulate us while we're running at times. I'm not a big fan of running with music in many circumstances, but a rainy Thursday evening run is certainly one of those times that I use it to get by.
Last night I was wearing my iPod Shuffle, which selects the songs randomly. I was rockin' out to some live music when one of the lyrics jumped out at me. It was ironic how it fit with my run. Then I started paying attention and it seemed like one after another something jumped out at me as being very appropriate in each of the songs. What was going on here. Was it karma? Was it just a random coincidence? Are there random coincidences?
I don't know, but here are the words that were speaking to me last night. Can you name the artist and song? They're all listed at the end of the article.
1. "No one knows where you are, how near, how far. . . No one knows how far you'll go."
2. "Gravity is working against me; And gravity wants to bring me down"
3. "Where are you going? Where do you go? Are you lookin' for answers to questions under the stars? Well if along the way you are growin weary, you can rest with me
Until a brighter day, you're ok."
4. "Fill 'er up son; with unleaded. I need a full tank of gas where I'm headed"
5. "Running, running. As fast as we can. Do you think we'll make it? We're running, keep holding my hand"
6. "If I had boat, I'd go out on the ocean. And if I had a pony, I'd ride him on my boat.
And we could all together; go out on the ocean. Me upon my pony on my boat."
[OK, so that may not have much to do with running, but I just love the line.]
7. How far can you go; Make me glow glow glow glow."
And just as I finished the run, this came on:
8. "I'm bringing sexy back."*
[Oh, how I wish.]
Have a good weekend runners.
Coach Joe
* 1. Pink Floyd, Shine on you crazy diamond; 2. John Mayer, Gravity; 3. Dave Mathews, Where are you going? 4. Sting, Fill her up; 5. No Doubt, Running 6. Lyle Lovett, If I had a boat; 7. Nelly Furtado, Glow; 8. Justin Timberlake, Sexy back
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