You've been waiting for it and here it is:  the 100th Podcast from the Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance!  We do all things 100 today:  We talk to Mr. Mike Dillingham - Aggie Class '35 who is 100 and is the oldest living Aggie - about his time on the Texas A&M baseball team from 1931-1935.  We welcome back to the podcast one of the world's elite ultramarathoners Dr. Mike Sandlin who runs (and wins) 100-mile foot-races for fun! (really).  And for our 100th guest, we're pleased to welcome College Football Hall of Fame Coach (and winningest Aggie Football Coach of all time) RC Slocum.

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Today's podcast is the third of our Olympic themed podcasts.  Dr. Ed Coyle from University of Texas Austin is with us in advance of the London Olympic Marathon to talk about whether a human will ever run a sub-2 hour marathon. 

 

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The London Olympics is just around the corner and of course, and with all of the performances and stories that will happen there, David Epstein from Sports Illustrated is with us today to give us a heads-up as to what he thinks will be the intriguing stories of these Olympics. 

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This is the audio-only podcast of Dr. Wendy Kohrt's 2012 Huffines Discussion Talk titled "Got Strength? Building Stronger Bones through Exercise".   Dr. Kohrt is a highly lauded scientist and was recently selected to give the prestigious Wolfe Lecture keynote talk at the American College of Sports Medicine meeting. 

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This is the second of the audio-only podcasts of the 2012 Huffines Discussion Talks.   This week's 2012 Huffines Discussion Scholar is Dr. Jacques Dallaire from Performance Prime whose talk was "Perform Like a Champion...What is Holding You Back?"

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We have Chris Field today in the podcast, Founder and Director of the BCS Marathon.  We talk about  the unseen world that is so critical to having these types of events.  ALSO, I'd encourage you to listen just because of the profound reason why Chris organized this race.  It may actually touch you....check it out!

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Today we are pleased to have Dr. William Hale from Prairie View A&M University in the podcast today.  We chat about elite cycling, stretch (and whether you should do it or not), and health disparities in cheerleaders.  It's a fun conversation!

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Podcast rated "R" for language....Join us as we are immersed in a provocative story about cross country running, gene doping, and competition.

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IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball joins us to talk about the special sports medicine needs of an IndyCar driver as well as his special physiological needs.  Charlie is the first elite racing driver to race with Type 1 Diabetes and it is incredibly interesting to hear how his team (and IndyCar) handles his condition.

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We've got something different for you this week.  Our friends over at EscapePod.org are allowing us to broadcast one of their episodes - "Fuel" by Matthew Rotundo - that deals with the future of athletic performance enhancement.  This is a great episode to generate conversation about the future of performance and what we will allow as a society.

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