Posts Tagged Gary Allen


Maine to DC: Update #6

Gary has been making great time, and got to the Bronx last night and is already through New York this morning and making his way through New Jersey. Gary has run 475 miles and has 230 miles left to go! As always, you can track his progress at MyAthleteLive.com and make a donation on his [...]

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Maine to DC: Updates #4 and #5

Gary has been making great time this weekend, and as I write this on Monday morning he’s over 335 miles into his trip, and is making his way through Connecticut! Pretty soon he’ll be going through my old stomping grounds. Fun stat #1: Gary covered 327 miles in his first week of running. Fun stat [...]

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Maine to DC: Update #3

Yesterday was day 4 of Gary Allen’s run from Maine to DC. He totaled around “43″ miles, and I put that in quotes because he discovered that if he leaves the orange line his mileage stops counting until he rejoins it, and then it’s just the original mileage no matter how much extra he has [...]

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Maine to DC: Update #2

Gary got about 90 miles through yesterday, and today has already passed the 100 mile mark. It looks like he will be running through Portland tomorrow for anybody in the Brunswick to Biddeford area that wants to join him for a few miles or to bring him some food or coffee or just cheer him [...]

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Maine 2 DC: Update #1

I just heard from Gary, and he’s left us an update from the road about 2/3 of the way through today’s run. You can listen to it below: Click the play button to hear Gary’s update: Click here to Download [ 0:03:38 | MP3 | 5.2 MB ] Gray ran 45.3 miles yesterday, and as [...]

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Gary Allen Begins Running from Maine to DC

Gary Allen, founder of Crow Athletics and the race director for the Mount Desert Island Marathon and the Great Cranberry Island Ultramarathon, has begun his run today from the top of Cadillac Mountain to Washington, D.C. His goal is to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project while getting to our nation’s capital in time [...]

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Great Cranberry Island 50k – 2011

This was my second trip to Great Cranberry Island for the ultramarathon, and I had a great time despite the fact that I didn’t finish the race. The only other time that I dropped out of a race was when I was in high school and I fell down the side of a mountain and [...]

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2010 Mount Desert Island Marathon Interviews

I volunteered at the 2010 Mount Desert Island Marathon, so I wasn’t able to catch up with everybody that I wanted to at the finish line as many had already left by the time I got there and others just never came into my line of sight when I was actually able to move over [...]

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2010 Mount Desert Island Marathon

I had the pleasure of volunteering at the 2010 Mount Desert Island Marathon and had my camera out to capture some video at the starting line and at the half-marathon point. I also got a few interviews at the finish line once everybody had passed through the half marathon. The race couldn’t have been run [...]

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The Great Cranberry Island 50k Should Go On Your Life List

The Great Cranberry Island 50k is a race that you should add to your list of races you need to run at least once. I really wasn’t sure what to expect going into the race. It starts at 11:30 in the morning on a small island off the coast of Maine, where you run multiple [...]

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