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Posts Tagged ‘5k’


Bernard Lagat Runs 12:54.12 For a New 5000m American Record

Bernard Lagat set a new 5000 meter American Record earlier today when he ran 12:54.12 for a 3rd place overall finish at the ExxonMobile Bislett Games in Oslo. That’s 2.15 seconds faster than Dathan Ritzenhein’s previous record of 12:56.27, which was set last August at the Weltklasse Meet in Zurich. Chris Solinsky was close behind, [...]

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2010 Weekly Back Cove 5k » Week 4 of 17

This Wednesday was the 4th Back Cove 5k of the season, and the air quality was less than ideal given the smoke and ash particles coming our way from the forest fires in Quebec. The temperature was a nice 57 degrees, although the air was very dry despite looking humid from the general haze. I [...]

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The Pineland Farms Barefoot 5k Video

My good friend and fellow Trail Monster Jamie Anderson wasn’t able to run on Saturday, but he brought his video camera to catch the action and put together this great video that gives you a good idea of what it was like to race in the Pineland Farms Barefoot 5k: It was a fun race, [...]

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A Quick Clip From My Barefoot 5k Race

Here’s a quick clip that my friend Stephen Wells took during this weekend’s barefoot 5k: I was getting close to the end of the race here, and had passed quite a few people from the “normal” 5k that started 10 minutes before the barefoot race. Nobody that was shod ran faster than me, since I [...]

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Pineland Farms 2010 » A Weekend of Barefoot Racing

The Pineland Farms Festival of Races was this weekend, and it made what was already a great event into something for the whole family. Along with the normal 25k, 50k and 50 mile races that have been offered for the past few years, an additional day of racing and festivities was added which included 10k, [...]

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Weekly Back Cove 5k Kicks Off For 2010

Portland’s weekly Summer 5k race series kicked off this evening with temperatures about as great as you could ask for in any race and a nice tailwind for the first mile. Of course, that meant that there was a pretty stiff breeze in the last two miles but all in all the weather was quite [...]

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Pineland Farms Trail Challenge Barefoot 5k Preview Video

This past weekend I was out at Pineland Farms for my “long” run (which, given a sore hamstring the past few days, wasn’t that long.) After the run, I ran a little bit of the upcoming Barefoot 5k race course without my shoes to get a good feel for what the terrain will be like [...]

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Portland’s 2nd Annual Reiche International 5K is on October 18th

A friend of mine sent me the following email about an upcoming race in Portland, so if you are looking for a relatively flat 5k where you can run a fast time and peek out over the Western Promenade, this is the one: The second annual Reiche International 5K road race – celebrating the more [...]

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