… On a steep incline a few miles later, she charged up it even though the men around her were walking. So much for not burning up all her fuel in the beginning. “I remember thinking this was the most pain I had ever been in in my life—more than giving birth—and then I looked down at my Garmin and it said 11.6 miles,” she said. “I thought, ‘Oh my God. I don’t know if I’m going to make it.’ I knew the race was over for me.”
Around mile 15, she started to see spots. She started to throw up. She started to walk. “I would have cried if I hadn’t felt so sick,” she said. “I started to wonder why I signed up for this. I started to think about how I’d never run again. I knew I wasn’t going to finish and I knew I’d never enter a race again.”
But just before mile 19, as the course turned around and started heading back down the mountain toward the finish line, it was like the winds suddenly shifted.
… Jackson’s decision to first try rehab — leading to the reinjury against the Bears — and then ultimately surgery has been a hotly debated topic with the Eagles slated to come off their bye week Sunday against the Patriots. Doug Pederson addressed the issue in front of the media earlier this week for the first time after Jackson was put on the Eagles’ IR.
“In DeSean’s case, listen, there’s been a lot of discussion with DeSean from the moment he came out of the Falcons game to the decision to play in the Bears game to surgery,” Pederson said. “There’s a lot — we talk a lot with the player. We talk a lot with our medical staff. We even talk to external sources, third-party people, that have expertise in this area.
“I’m not the doctor, nor did I look at MRIs or x-rays or any of that. DeSean busted his tail electively to try to get it fixed himself, to try to rehab and come back. He busted his tail. He was cleared to play. He felt good. For me as the coach, I listen to the player. I listen to what his body is telling him. Everything was a go. Then he felt something in the [Bears] game. We pulled him out, as I said after the game, for precautionary reasons.
… No recovery timeline was provided for either Kerfoot or Moore, but it’s safe to assume Spezza will receive a run of games with both staying home to start a six-game road trip. It was this possibility, or inevitably, that kept his spirits up during the series of bag skates he went through while being scratched four of the last five games.
“Frustration’s just useless. Like, it’s really a useless emotion, it doesn’t do you any good, you lose confidence over it,” said Spezza. “Yeah there’s days when I come when I’m maybe not as upbeat as I am other days, but I think you just really try to refocus every day. I know it’s a long game involved here, there’s going to be injuries and now it’s come maybe sooner than we would have liked as a team.
“But for me it’s an opportunity and that’s why I try to stay sharp.”
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Michael Phelps was caught on camera glaring as he prepared for the men’s 200-meter butterfly final. The look, popularly known as Phelps face, became an example of a concept that has long been familiar in sports: the game face.
But could putting on a serious face in preparation for competition actually impact performance? According to a new study published in Stress and Health by experimental psychology researchers at UT, there may be substance to game face.
“Game face may not only improve performance in cognitive tasks, but it could also lead to better recovery from stress,” said Matthew Richesin, master’s student and lead author of the study, which was co-authored with Associate Professor of Psychology Debora Baldwin, Michael Oliver, a postdoctoral fellow in the UT Graduate School of Medicine, and fellow graduate student Lahai Wicks.
Coach Kyle Shanahan wants his receivers to remember what it’s like to drop a pass.
He actually wants them during the course of the week to visualize dropping passes.
“Don’t sit there and just picture everything is going to go perfect this week,” Shanahan said. “Picture yourself having another drop again. Know how bad that feels and then think of how you’re going to react to that because if you go out there being, ‘Man I’ve got to be perfect this week and I have another drop,’ you’re going to go into a shell the rest of the game, and we’re going to need you.”
With our Youth Fall Clinic ending a week ago I thought it would be a good time to talk about our philosophy for developing youth athletes; namely, the concept of gamification and the unique benefits that stem from it.
Gamifying skill work (ie. learning how to throw/pitch) serves a ton of purposes but we can break it down into three overarching principles.
CU Boulder researchers are working to apply machine learning to psychiatry, with a speech-based mobile app that can categorize a patient’s mental health status as well as or better than a human can.
“We are not in any way trying to replace clinicians,” says Peter Foltz, a research professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science and co-author of a new paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin that lays out the promise and potential pitfalls of AI in psychiatry. “But we do believe we can create tools that will allow them to better monitor their patients.”
Lawmakers are closely following an agreement between Google and Ascension that grants the tech giant access to tens of millions of patient records. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), for instance, is corralling his colleagues for a hearing examining tech companies’ HIPAA compliance; he also introduced a bill Thursday that would stop businesses from selling and sharing data gathered by fitness trackers, along with Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.).
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Though the long-term severity of the quarterback’s hip dislocation and fracture is still unknown, it’s hard not to wonder if we’ll ever see the Heisman contender and presumptive no. 1 NFL draft pick at full strength again
SB Nation, Beyond the Boxscore blog, Sheryl Ring from
Atlanta’s MLB team was already off to an inauspicious beginning to the 2019-20 offseason after being correctly called out by Cardinals reliever Ryan Helsley for their racist tomahawk chop cheer. After last week, it doesn’t appear things will be improving for the franchise from here. The Major League Baseball Players’ Association launched an investigation regarding these comments to the Athletic from Atlanta General Manager Alex Anthopoulos.
… I had come to Somerville ready to ridicule, but it doesn’t take long for the gravity of the situation to hit me. If this jury of four men and four women decides Suk was reckless as a third-base coach for making this most routine decision, who else will end up in a courtroom like this someday?
What about the gymnastics coach who tells an athlete to tumble on a mat? Or the swimming coach who instructs a teenager to dive into a pool? Or the thousands upon thousands of parents who volunteer every weekend on soccer pitches and lacrosse fields and Little League diamonds?
If Suk is found liable for an injury that took place because of that slide — and if a seven-figure check is written because of his actions — what will happen to high school sports? Who will sign up for these coaching jobs knowing their reputation and livelihood might be in jeopardy? And how long before school districts drop sports entirely rather than pay skyrocketing insurance premiums?
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science blog, Andrew Gelman from
… First off, the “ecological validity” thing is a red herring. Whoever said that were either misunderstood or didn’t know what they were talking about. Ecological validity refers to generalization from the lab to the real world, and it’s an important concern—but it has nothing to do with whether your measurements are within or between people.
Second, I think within-person designs are generally the best option when studying within-person effects. But there are settings where a between-person design is better.
In order to understand why I prefer the within-person design, it’s helpful to see the key advantage of the between-person design, which is that, by doing giving each person only one treatment, the effects of the treatment are pure. No crossover effects to worry about.