Marathons: By the Numbers

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Marathons: By the Numbers

By Blaine Moore on Friday, April 29th, 2011 | No Comments

I saw this infographic recently and had to share it…more information about the state of Marathoning in one handy reference than you thought you needed. And yes, I know that that isn’t a picture of Haile Gebreselassie…I didn’t make the image, I’m just sharing it:

Choosing the Best Running GPS Watch

By Blaine Moore on Thursday, April 28th, 2011 | 4 Comments

GPS watches are a great toy for runners. They allow us to track how far we are running, we can get real time feedback about how fast we are going, and they can help us find our way out of the woods when we get lost. They are one of the best training tools to [...]

2011 Gansett Marathon

By Blaine Moore on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 | No Comments

A couple of weeks ago I ran the first Gansett Marathon, which was the second annual race as it was moved from last year’s location in Exeter, Rhode Island to Naragansett to accommodate a larger field. This year’s race was just as well organized as last year’s was, although my own race didn’t go nearly [...]

2011 Boston Marathon Race Results

By Blaine Moore on Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Patriot’s Day means the Boston Marathon here in New England, when countless throngs line the streets between Hopkinton and Beantown and cheer on thousands of runners as they make their way along. I’ve run Boston twice, and I honestly think that I prefer watching the race over running it. It’s a great experience, and the [...]

Grete Waitz Died From Cancer at Age 57

By Blaine Moore on Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Grete Waitz died early this morning at a hospital in Oslo, Norway after a 6 year fight with cancer. Grete was an amazing runner who still holds the 1500 and 3k national records in Norway. She really drew the notice of the American running scene when Fred Lebow invited her to run the New York [...]

2011 Boston Marathon Preview

By Blaine Moore on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 | No Comments

The World Marathon Majors are set to get going again this year, with two of the races falling on the same weekend. Normally, the London Marathon and the Boston Marathon are about a week apart, but this year they fall on the same weekend. Here’s who to keep an eye out for in the Boston [...]

Run/Walk Experiment 2 – No Training Edition

By Blaine Moore on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 | 4 Comments

Last year, I laid out my plans about a week before the inaugural Exeter Marathon. I ran a Magic Mile and used Jeff Galloway’s charts to convert that mile time into a marathon time, and talked about my run/walk strategy I was planning on running. Fast forward a year, and it is now 2011 and [...]

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