Liam Boylan-Pett

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

It’s that time of year when I realize I forgot to cancel peacock after the world track championships and boy am I glad about it because Gold Zone rules. Go sports.

Today they ran a 50k around DC with 9 stops at Taco Bells (5 of the stops included at least a more real menu item, not just a soft taco) and my friend Mike Smith won. In, according to him, an American Record. What an unreal accomplishment. Here’s the strava details: strava.app.link/E1p98c5dHYb

What a great headline

Folks, if you follow me here you probably know that after Thanksgiving dinner, I like to run a mile all out. Each year I go hammer a mile after dinner and I take 5 seconds off my time for each beer I’ve had. Last year I “ran” 4:42 with 10 beers. Let’s see how it goes this year.

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

The Michigan The Michigan A workout so nice they only named it once.Løpe Magazine, Issue No. 003 – November 2018By Liam Boylan-Pett — Imagine it is July 2001, and that you are 15 years old at a ski …

And here’s the story to the original profile of The Michigan, which is the most-read Løpe Magazine story of all by a nearly 3 to 1 margin. lopemagazine.com/2018/11/16/t...

Because isn’t that sometimes the point of a workout? To prove to yourself that you are strong, that you are fit. Because if you can’t handle it now, how are you going to handle it on race day? The Michigan shows you what you’re made of. Which is why we keep coming back.

The folks at Tracksmith asked me to write a little bit about The Michigan because of a story I wrote in 2018 … and I got to explain why I think people coming back to that workout — and that story. big-workouts-the-michigan.tracksmith.com/big-workouts...

I had honestly forgotten the conclusion and told my colleagues that the runners had gotten swimmer’s itch…I’m with you on the poison ivy!

Runner’s Itch Runner’s ItchWhat exactly happened at the 2006 N.E.S.C.A.C. cross-country championships?LØPE MAGAZINE – Issue No. 022, May 2020By Liam Boylan-Pett–On the morning of October 27, 2006, Ab…

Someone brought up swimmer's itch in a meeting today and it reminded me of the 2006 NESCAC XC Championships and a story I wrote about the time a bunch of runners got a rash from a race through mud and grass.

Happy conference XC meet week to all: lopemagazine.com/2020/05/21/r...

If I had a shitload of money and wished to hasten the arrival of the Kingdom of God I would simply follow the clearly labeled instructions by housing immigrants, freeing prisoners, and so forth

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

If I had led the entire 800m final at the world champs and been passed with 50 meters to go I would have simply crumbled to the ground and ceased to exist but Emmanuel Wanyonyi simply found another gear and made a pass back. The 800 rules. What a race

26.2 miles decided by .03 seconds The marathon World Championship was incredible for everyone except the guy who lost by 0.3 seconds. PLUS wild wrestling comebacks, and stone-skimming CONTROVERSY.

🚨 NEW SPORTS NEWSLETTER 🚨

—If I lost the marathon by .03 seconds I would lie down on the track forever and you'd have to run the rest of the races around me
—a former toilet paper factory employee (and Minnesota football player) is now a world champion
—STONE SKIPPING CONTROVERSY

Also we need her to run a 400h tomorrow ... she can dip under 50!

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Marileidy Paulino just put on a show. Sydney running 47.78 for 400m is simply silly. God track and field rules.

Enhanced Games? I'm more interested in the dehanced games ... where I, a recently turned 40-year-old, will run a mile all-out on the roads in the dark post Thanksgiving dinner.

Last year, I ran 5:32 on the roads after 10 beers and a full turkey feast. And I didn't vom. It'll be more fun than this

the world track and field championships are on Peacock can help get you through your mornings this week if you're interested

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments. By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova 08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

What a great look at a wild, wild race.

I stood up from the couch during the last 150 of the men’s 800 at USAs and I haven’t sat down since. What an unbelievable race.

Brazier back and a 16 year old running 1:42 and I might never sit again

Ran a 4:51 mile last night to extend my sub-5 streak to 26!

2000- 4:54
01- 4:38
02- 4:21
03- 4:17
04- 4:10
05- 4:09
06- 4:08
07- 4:07
08- 4:04
09- 3:59
10- 3:59
11- 3:58
12- 3:58
13- 3:57
14- 3:59
15- 4:01
16- 4:08
17- 4:23
18- 4:36
19- 4:44
20- 4:43
21- 4:53
22- 4:57
23- 4:47
24- 4:53
25- 4:51

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Grok” ok well I didn’t ask Strava’s Athlete Intelligence because I’m not a paying subscriber

I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.

Remember the scene in 'Miracle' when Herb Brooks kept saying, "Again" each time the team finished a down-and-back? I think it was a similar scene for the team making these Rio bib numbers. "Bigger," the bib designer told his or her team every time they printed out a sample. "Bigger," the designer said each time another bib was brought out, even as some quietly protested in hushed tones. "We won't be able to see the jerseys soon"... "Bigger." "The printers are going to run out of ink" ... "Bigger." "Aren't they big enough already?" ... "Bigger." There was no happy ending in the printing room in Rio, though. The design team had no Mike Eruzione to put an end to the madness - and these bibs got too big.

Looks like they called up the bib design team from Rio for another chance

A happy brown and white English Springer Spaniel dog named Maple sits in a grassy field, wearing a white full-body bee suit with a mesh veil over its head and a colorful sunflower-patterned harness. Its tongue is slightly out.

Hello, everyone, and may I present: A picture of a dog in a bee suit. Maple can sniff out diseases in colonies and is a very good furry friend. I wrote a story about her and some other cool stuff going on at Michigan State University's Pollinator Performance Center msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/bu...