Mike Brooks checked in and he’s now run for 8 days. He’s been enjoying the weather for the past few days. He’s now run 427 miles, keeping pretty close to his average of 50 miles per day with 49 miles in the past 24 hours. He’s looking forward to getting to the 500 mile mark [...]
Read More...Well, race weekend is here. The Cox Sports Marathon is on Sunday morning, so I’m going to hold a contest of sorts this weekend. Last year, I won the marathon in 2:43:27, which was pretty exciting. Going into the race this year, I have 3 goals. Break the course record. Set the course record. Run [...]
Read More...Mike Brooks has now been running for 7 days, and he’s definitely looking forward to the end of the next 3 days. Today he claims that he’s run 178 miles, so my guess is that he has run 378 miles which would have given him another 44 miles in the past 23 hours (he checked [...]
Read More...Mike Brooks has now set a 6-day PR after going 334 miles over the past 120 hours, going 50 miles in the past 24 hours. That’s 14 miles further than he ran when he did the 6-day version of the race in the past. Mike’s friend Andy has agreed to donate $500 if Mike makes [...]
Read More...Mike Brooks has now been going for 120 hours and has covered 284 miles, 48 of them in the past 24 hours (as of noon today.) He had a little company yesterday as his brother, Walter, came down to visit: “Its incredible because he really got into marathoning at a late age. He amazes me, [...]
Read More...Mike Brooks has now completed 96 hours and has gone 236 miles before the 6 day racers even got started. He has run an average of 59 miles per day, so the 46-48 miles he ran over the past 24 hours has barely cut into the cushion he’s built up. The weather continues to be [...]
Read More...The Boston Marathon is quite an experience, and this week I’ve read quite a few reports that capture what it feels like to be part of it. This is Mike Girouard’s view of the marathon from the first corral. I met Mike at the 2009 Boston Indoor Games. If you’d like to know more about [...]
Read More...Mike Brooks is now 3 days into his 10 day run, and has run 56 miles in the last 24 hours for a total of 188 miles (a 72 hour PR – his previous best was 187.7 miles.) Some very good news today, as Mike has received a $3,000 grant from Finishline Sports for their [...]
Read More...I received another email from Patrick at Universal Sports, this time with information about the London Marathon: This Sunday, April 26th, Universal Sports will continue the Marathon Month with LIVE coverage of the Flora London Marathon via UniversalSports.com. Fans in the US and Canada can tune-in to watch the world’s top marathon runners compete head [...]
Read More...Mike Brooks has now gone about 132 miles in 48 hours, getting his projected 55 miles in over the past 24 hours. He was a little tired and groggy when he called in, but is doing all right. His shoe size has gone up a bit over the past 48 hours. You can listen in [...]
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