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With the holiday season upon us, who could forget that classic Frank Capra film where a downtrodden American everyman contemplates jumping to his death...

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Jason Cosentino is in the thick of summer fruit season. During the pandemic, 91-year-old patriarch Phil Cosentino—whose father bought the San Jose land that J&P...

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Fifty years ago this October, Tommie Smith and John Carlos climbed atop the Olympic medal podium in Mexico City and threw up a fist against racial inequality. As they each removed their shoes and raised a clenched, black-gloved hand in the air, the pair of San Jose State sprinters bowed their heads, symbolically refusing to acknowledge their country's national anthem as it played over the stadium's loudspeakers.

Hal Higdon, a contributing editor to Runner's World magazine and one of the country's foremost running gurus thanks to his book Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide, was surprised by those developments last year, at least as far as they pertained to the custom training plans he offers on his app Run With Hal, which are focused specifically on helping runners train for their goal distances.