Millrose Games Kicks Off Visa Championship Series Tonight

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Millrose Games Kicks Off Visa Championship Series Tonight

By Blaine Moore on Friday, January 30th, 2009 | 3 Comments

It’s that time of year again! The Visa Championship Series starts tonight with the Millrose Games and continues next week with the Boston Indoor Games. I can’t get to New York today, but will be in Boston next week. The Millrose games will be televised live on ESPN2 tonight from 7-8:30 p.m. It will also [...]

The 50 Mile Diet – How to Prepare For A Long Endurance Event

By Blaine Moore on Friday, January 23rd, 2009 | 6 Comments

Shortly after running 50 miles, I wrote a short little article analyzing what I ate the morning of and during the race. I examined the exact number of calories that I consumed compared to my estimated caloric usage. Today, I’m going to share a few of the meals that I consumed in the week leading [...]

Running Skirts and Martini Water Stops

By Blaine Moore on Friday, January 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

I don’t really have an opinion one way or the other on running skirts. I don’t plan on wearing them, I don’t mind other people wearing them, and I doubt highly that my wife will ever wear one since she thinks that they look ridiculous. Plenty of the women in the group that I coached [...]

Registration for the Boston Marathon has Closed

By Blaine Moore on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 | 3 Comments

If you were hoping to run the Boston Marathon in 2009 and you haven’t registered yet, then you are going to have to work a little harder to get in: Registration is closed for the 2009 Boston Marathon. The Boston Marathon does not have a waiting list, late registration on race weekend, or race day [...]

Josh Cox Sets US 50k Record

By Blaine Moore on Monday, January 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Despite feeling ill and being unable to keep liquids down for over 1/3 of the race, Josh Cox still managed to set the American mark in the 50k in 2:47:17. That beats Alex Tilson‘s 2:51:48 set back in 2002, but was a bit short of Thompson Mugwana‘s 1988 world record time of 2:43:38. Cox ran [...]

Meb Keflezighi edges Dathan Ritzenhein at USATF Half Marathon Championships

By Blaine Moore on Sunday, January 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Meb Keflezighi chose a good race for his first half marathon win as he managed to beat Dathan Ritzenhein by 10 seconds this morning in Houston at the USATF half marathon championship race. He won the race in 1:01:25. “I just wanted to make a statement that I’m back and that I’m healthy and that [...]

30 Years of the Maine Track Club

By Blaine Moore on Sunday, January 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Last night was the Maine Track Club annual banquet, celebrating the club’s 30th birthday. The evening was a lot of fun, with plenty of folks attending, plenty of good food, plenty of door prizes, and a plethora of awards. The club honored it’s founder, Brian “Ziggy” Gillespie (who was the coach for “Run to Win” [...]

Untamed New England Joins the Adventure Racing World Series

By Blaine Moore on Saturday, January 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Adventure Racing World Series is going to make it’s way to North America in 2009 now that they have added Untamed New England to it’s lineup of qualifying races. The Adventure Racing World Series currently consists of 10 races spread throughout the calendar year and across the globe. With the addition of Untamed New [...]

How To Make Snow and $10 Skate Ski Lessons

By Blaine Moore on Friday, January 16th, 2009 | No Comments

I saw this note from Trail Monster Jeff Walker about a Skate Ski clinic at Pineland Farms next Monday: Morgan Laidlaw, the coach of Maine Coast Nordic and the Bill Koch League skiers, is offering a beginner skate skiing clinic at Pineland on Martin Luther King Junior Day. Take advantage of this opportunity! Time: 9AM, [...]

Haile Gebrselassie Falls Short Of Marathon Record With 2:05:29

By Blaine Moore on Friday, January 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Rain thwarted Haile Gebrselassie in his attempt to break his own world record in the marathon this morning in Dubai. He set the world record at 2:03:59 last year in Berlin, but went out a bit too fast in the first 10k in his attempt to break the record at Dubai in 2008. This year, [...]

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