Liam Boylan-Pett

I don’t know if I’m back, but I got a message about someone racing the subway and I felt like writing about running again. On racing trains, dress shoes—especially my first pair—and why I think everyone should take up stupid running challenges. lopemagazine.com/2024/11/26/f...

It is a sad time in our household, as Frank Gagliano passed yesterday. We love him and will miss him dearly. Here’s an obit I wrote for Runner’s World www.runnersworld.com/news/a742478...

lol Mike Rogers is using AI to make his mailers that go straight into recycling

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Gonna save the pope holding a bat as a sticker and slap it on any text someone sends me with AI

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

GO KNIGHTS

It’s interesting what some people consider social problems that we must solve collectively (men being sad) and ones we consider not worth solving at all (anyone else’s problems) bsky.app/profile/volt...

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

sigh

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.

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

🚨 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

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

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.

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...

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...

Believing that em dashes reveal LLM usage just reveals that you don't read.

A colleague was telling me that if I had AI join a meeting and interview my subjects that it could then write my stories for me and I told that colleague that I actually enjoy writing, hence my job as a writer, and then we didn't really have that much else to talk about.

The largest wooden dome in the world is in Marquette, Michigan, at Northern Michigan U and it is one heck of a sight to see … my two kiddos enjoyed a little run on the football field

13:58 omg

striking and telling that Zohran can do the "this is all a distraction from the horrible bill they're passing in Congress" bit better than any of the establishment Dems can.

A wonderful thing about running is it’s all so connected. A fun thing I learned about Dellinger about 7 years ago is he had a hand in creating the famed workout The Michigan. A sad day for track to say goodbye to a legend.

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

An intense, shocking read, raising all kinds of questions. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.