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Archive for October, 2010


World Marathon Majors: 2010 Chicago Marathon

The World Marathon Majors 2009-2010 season will most likely be decided tomorrow, as all of the top players in both the men’s and women’s races are running Chicago so none of the New York City runners are in contention unless there are some major upsets. The Americans should be able to put in a strong [...]

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Back to Back (Part 3): The Maine Marathon

This past weekend I ran my first back-to-back marathons with the New Hampshire Marathon on Saturday and the Maine Marathon on Sunday. I came into this race feeling really good despite having run a marathon the day before other than a small muscle pull that I got relatively early into the previous race. The goal [...]

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Back to Back (Part 2): Bridging the Gap Between Marathons

This past weekend I ran my first back-to-back marathons with the New Hampshire Marathon on Saturday and the Maine Marathon on Sunday. Obviously, the big concern is what do I do in between the races to keep from being completely stiff and sore on Sunday for the second race, right? Whatever I did must have [...]

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Back to Back (Part 1): The New Hampshire Marathon

This past weekend I ran my first back-to-back marathons with the New Hampshire Marathon on Saturday and the Maine Marathon on Sunday. I enjoyed the New Hampshire race, despite a few pretty serious drawbacks and running the first half mile behind some guys trying to run 2:20 pace. The race was pretty well organized, it’s [...]

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Should You Run The Day Before a Marathon?

I appropriately enough saw this tweet about a week before running a marathon: Question for marathon veterans: How many of you run (2-3 miles) day before? Or do you prefer to rest? It’s funny because my normal response is a bit different than my plan this weekend, as the day before one of my marathons [...]

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