Slam Dunc!

In most career fields it’s not considered kosher to promote the craft of your competition, but luckily in the world of jogging journalism there’s enough assignments to go around that it’s not doing me a disservice to point you in the direction of another writer’s website. Plus, it’s not like there’s a whole helluva lot going on around here at the moment, anyway.

For those of you who haven’t yet checked out Duncan Larkin’s latest incarnation on the interweb, roadsmillslaps.com, I suggest you do so in the next 5 minutes or risk running across another uninteresting article on athletics that does nothing to uncover the issues that runners really want to read about. The site goes in a different direction than most other mainstream media outlets and offers a less-than-predictable perspective on the sport through a series of interesting interviews. In the typically tame world of running writing, it’s a nice change of pace.

Now for some shameless self promotion. If you don’t have one already, I suggest signing up for a subscription to Running Times magazine, as I’ll have a pair of pieces premiering in the January/February 2010 issue in the form of a feature story on a local legend, as well as my initial installment in the Owner’s Manual. To say I’m uber excited about these two incredible opportunities would be an unbelievable understatement.