Oaxaca Running Tours T-Shirt

This afternoon I just pulled some prints in the garage and produced the first batch of Oaxaca Running Tours T-Shirts! One of the first questions I got from my clients on the running tour was, "Do you have T-Shirts? We want them!" So, here we are, and they are a relative steal at 150 pesos. This is a rough screen shot photo, but you get the idea. I'll put up a pretty one soon. Steve Lafler Email me 503-213-3671

Grumpy Runner Reviewed on Trip Advisor

Many thanks to Angela G for reviewing my Running Tour service on Tripadvisor! She was in Oaxaca last month with Los Quixotes, a group of medical workers from San Antonio Texas doing pro-bono work in remote areas of Oaxaca. Here's the group at the highest point of our run on the Libramiento above Oaxaca, a no-traffic road that winds through the foothills north of town.
This photo of The Grumpy Runner is courtesy of TripAdvisor

Time to Standardize PED Testing for Runners

According to this piece at Runners World, Dathan Ritzenhein was the most tested runner in the United States in 2012, with 17 tests. Mo Farah, the double world and Olympic champion over 5,000 and 10,000 meters, speaks of being tested constantly in a recent interview with the Telegraph.

Of course it is necessary to test elite runners in the struggle to keep the sport clean, but it's not fair to test some athletes constantly while others are barely tested. It makes sense to require elite athletes to regularly take the same type and number of tests.

This begs the question, who administers and pays for it all. How about the shoe companies and other corporations that sponsor athletes and competitions?

I'm the first to admit I'm pretty naive about the PED situation. At the gut level, and as a fan of the sport, I think it's time to standardize testing.