Don Penta and David Colby Young’s photos and videos are now all online for this year’s Safe Passage 5k. You can view them over at Maine Running Photos. Here are the links: Photo Set 1: Pre-Race & Starting Line Photo Set 2: Finish Line (First Half) Photo Set 3: Finish Line (Second Half) Video 1: [...]
Read More...About a month or so ago I was in touch with a gentleman at Ball Dynamics, a Colorado based manufacturer and distributor of the FitBall® product line. They sell a variety of swiss balls and medicine balls and accessories, which should be a staple in any athlete’s home exercise equipment. In exchange for this review, [...]
Read More...In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about some things that you might be able to do locally throughout the month of April. This week I will wrap things up by sharing some ways to find local races, especially inaugural races. What is an inaugural race? [...]
Read More...This week last year was filled mostly with racing news, and what wasn’t racing was related in some way to swimming. I offered 9 methods for counting laps in the pool. I usually use the buoys on the lane dividers. A revolutionary in the shotput in the early 50s, Parry O’Brien died of a heart [...]
Read More...The Safe Passage 5k was this morning, with little to no wind, a clear sky, and cool but warming temperatures. There were 392 finishers. Ethan Hemphill led a string of 4 Dirigo runners to win the race in 15:29, with Suzanne Ray taking the women’s race in 19:07. The race raised almost $11,000 for Safe [...]
Read More...One of Trevor Graham’s athletes that has tested positive for steroids has had her career restored after appealing the drug tests. Her case has been under review and appeal since 2006. LaTesha Jenkins can now compete again now that she has both won her appeal and WADA has dropped it’s appeal of the overturned charge [...]
Read More...What do you do when you aren’t motivated to run, or when your schedule gets interrupted and you have to miss a workout? If you are like most runners, then you try to make up that workout later in the week. I definitely recommend against doing that, especially when you are tapering for a goal [...]
Read More...I have uploaded my photos from the women’s Olympic Marathon Trials. I have not had time to title or tag them all yet, but they are in chronological order if you’d like to browse through them. You can view the entire set by going to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/45929840@N00/sets/72157604682112162
Read More...In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about some things that you might be able to do locally throughout the month of April. This week, Scott offers a few benefits to sharing your home gym with a training partner, not least of which is getting a [...]
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