The Personal Best column in The New York Times is a favorite of mine. Lots of articles about improving your fitness for a particular sport, often focused on running. Here's a timely one on starting out too fast in the marathon: Keeping the Gauge Off 'E'.

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The Houston Marathon, one of the two marathons I've run, is well organized, has great crowd support, and starts and finishes downtown. It's popular and this January's race is capped at 17,000 runners, 2,000 more than last year. On Friday's All Things Considered, NPR ran a story [listen here] about scalpers selling their Houston Marathon slots. You know it's a good race when people are selling their bibs on eBay.