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And what if it isn’t asthma at all? Head Team Physician for Washington State University Athletics discusses a method for controlling exercise-induced asthma without medication, and proposes that some cases of asthma in athletes are misdiagnosed from the beginning. The temperature is dropping more day by day, but you still have to train.  If you take time off due to cold weather, you can kiss your dreams of your new PR goodbye. But you have exercise-induced asthma- a shortness of breath or wheezing due to the airways narrowing during physical exertion. Training in the winter isn’t all sunshine and rainbows...

We Know You’ve Never Seen #4 Before! Lindsey Yoder competing in one of her many triathlons. Only a true athlete can smile in the middle of this grueling race. Go Lindsey! When the last leaves fall and winter descends on the masses, laziness can become an epidemic- even among the fittest of us all. To help you combat this slothful surrender to the sedentary season, we reached out to a top triathlete to bring you the best winter training tips we could find. Lindsey Yoder, 28 years old and hailing from North Carolina, competes in 7 triathlons per year, and...

Kipsang Sets Marathon World Record in Berlin Kenyan Wilson Kipsang set a world record for 2 hours, 3 minutes and 23 seconds at the Berlin Marathon on Sunday, Sept. 29. He took 15 seconds off the previous record set two years ago by fellow Kenyan Patrick Makau, also in Berlin. Sunday’s win was the sixth time the men’s world record has been set in Berlin since 1998. The women’s world record has also been set in Berlin two times, strengthening the course’s reputation as the world’s fastest. Kipsang had a pace of about 4:42 per mile. “Looking at my marathon...

Vancouver City Council gave the go-ahead this week to add a few more kilometers of bicycle lanes to the city, filling in an important gap in a 28-kilometer cycling and pedestrian route that begins near the city’s famous Stanley Park.   New Greenway This new greenway will extend the crown jewel of the city. People come from all over the world to ride bicycles around Stanley Park and False Creek and this will add to it. It’s going to be a huge economic and environmental benefit for the city. The Seaside Greenway and York Bikeway project will connect BurrardStreetBridge to...