Thanks to Emily for pointing me at the following video interview from FloTrack. I think that this quote sums it up pretty well: "After last week in Berlin, I had so much confidence. I really felt like I belonged there."
Read More...Dathan Ritzenhein had the race of his life tonight, running what was until tonight only 0.02 seconds behind the world’s leading 5k time of the year. Cutting 20.3 seconds off of his personal best (set at the USA Outdoor Championships in 2006), he followed right on the heels of Kenenisa Bekele’s 12:52.32 and Edwin Cheruiyot [...]
Read More...Can Kenenisa Bekele be beaten in a 5000 meter run? It doesn’t appear so. This evening at Weltklasse Zurich, the 5th of 6 meets in the Golden League track series, he outran his closest competitor (Edwin Cheruiyot Soi) by about 2½ seconds to win the race in 12:52.32. That’s almost 4 seconds faster than his [...]
Read More...127 runners were greeted with overcast skies and temperatures in the high 70s this evening for the 16th Back Cove 5k. Only 3 races remain in the series for 2009. The race was led by a couple of first time runners on the season, with Jason Scott leading the way in 18:09 and Jennifer Sporzynski [...]
Read More...In early/mid 2008, my friend Steve Speirs started a website to help people do 100 consecutive pushups. If you ever visited a fitness blog around that time then you undoubtedly saw people making the attempt using Steve’s training schedules (many of whom succeeded, I might add.) Fast forward a year, and in June of 2009 [...]
Read More...The Weekly Back Cove Race Series is now 15 weeks in, with 1 more month of races remaining. There have been 6 different winners in the past 3 weeks since my last update. Emily Durgin (19:10) and Curtis Wheeler (16:56) won on August 8th. Matt Lunt (17:20) and Kristen Sweeney (20:24) won on August 12th. [...]
Read More...Sorry for the late notice, I just found out that the 3rd Annual Maine Coach & Athlete Cross Country Clinic is today and hadn’t noticed it on the schedule before now. The past two years were very informative; if you’d like to read my notes on those clinics than you can start here: 2007 Cross [...]
Read More...Traditionally, a runner that false starts a race is allowed to remain in the field if he is the first one to do so, although any subsequent false starts mean that the runner will be disqualified. That first false start is charged to the field. Starting on January 1st, 2010, that will no longer be [...]
Read More...This past weekend, I was unable to run the Beach to Beacon due to the slight problem of having just broken my foot. Fortunately for me, that meant that I was able to volunteer and see the race from a different perspective. I decided to volunteer with the folks from Atayne at the finish line [...]
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