Biking & Walking in the US: How Do You Rank?

Archive for January, 2012

Biking & Walking in the US: How Do You Rank?

By Blaine Moore on Friday, January 27th, 2012 | 2 Comments

The Alliance for Biking & Walking just released their 2012 Benchmarking Report, which describes the data that they have collected and analyzed across all 50 states and 51 of the largest cities in the country on safety, infrastructure, habits, policies, education and the economic impact of bicycling and walking. The report is a great resource [...]

2012 Olympic Trials and Houston Marathon

By Blaine Moore on Friday, January 20th, 2012 | 2 Comments

This past weekend the Olympic Marathon Trials took place in Houston, Texas. A day later, there followed the Houston Marathon. This also happened to be my birthday weekend, so what better way to celebrate a birthday than to watch some amazing athletes and then run a marathon? It was a great weekend. I knew it [...]

GAC Fat Ass 50k – 2012

By Blaine Moore on Saturday, January 7th, 2012 | 1 Comment

This evening I went to write today’s journal entry in my copy of the 2012 Runner’s Almanac and realized that today’s quote was quite appropriate. “Pain Is Temporary. Quitting is Forever.” –Lance Armstrong I drove down with some friends the GAC Fat Ass 50k this morning with the intention of running all 5 [...]

New Year’s Day Boston Marathon

By Blaine Moore on Monday, January 2nd, 2012 | 5 Comments

For the second year in a row, I brought in the New Year by heading out to Hopkinton at 6:00 a.m. on New Year’s Day. For 8 years now, Gary Allen has been running the Boston Marathon course first thing in the morning come rain, snow or clear skies. For the past few years now, [...]

Run to Win

Archive for January, 2012