For some, a pair of trainers can provoke as much excitement as a new designer handbag; if, as for me, the world of training shoes is alien to you, no need to despair.
American writer Ross Perlin's Intern Nation is a compelling investigation of a trend that threatens to destroy "what's left of the ordered world of training, hard work and fair compensation".
The club plunged me into a world of training runs, marathon talk, injury chat, earthy conversations about dodgy pelvic floors and club awaydays to cross-country meetings or seaside 10ks.
The overlap with medical or clinical settings may also draw biostatisticians into the world of training M.D.s, clinicians and related health professionals active in clinical medicine.
Just how and when did the worlds of academic training and industrial employment get to be so out of sync?
His upcoming book, The World's Strongest Librarian, illuminates the mysteries of Tourette Syndrome as well as the very different worlds of strongman training and modern libraries.
The main idea behind the use of this database structure in performance analysis of the EGM is to consider a typical real-world scenario of training-testing where the system is unaware of any plastic surgery cases.
That seems to be the trend, even in the formerly bucolic world of spring training.
The transformation in the world of doctoral training is set out in a new report from the League of European Research Universities (LERU), whose 21 members produce over 12% of Europe's doctoral graduates.
The situation was this: you've been doing this unforgiving sport for 25 years, competing, pushing every day to improve yourself (often in some pain) in this surreal world of difficult training, magnificent sporting occasions, highs and lows before big matches, wins and disappointments.
