The ING New York City Marathon has a lottery for who gets to run. The results are now available (as of about 11am this morning) and can be searched at their website:
Both my friend that I am going to run with and I got in. I would have been surprised had we not been, since we had both run guarenteed entry times and registered before the deadline.
I got an email from the RIT Alumni Association that had a drawing of Ritchie the (cartoon) tiger holding a thermometer that denotes the number of donations that the school has gotten this year. For personal reasons, I found this picture extremely amusing, so I forwarded it along to a friend of mine that I…
Should prosthetics be banned from IAAF sanctioned events such as the Olympics? IAAF officials think so. The proposed rule would prohibit “use of any technical device that incorporates springs, wheels or any other element that provides the user with an advantage over another athlete not using such a device.” The rule was originally meant to…
Joan Benoit Samuelson will be speaking at the Maine Running Company on Thursday evening, November 15th. She will be talking about race preparation, training up here in Maine, and will host a general Q & A session. Joannie was the first women’s Olympic Marathon gold medalist in 1984, has won the Boston Marathon twice and…
Next year’s Tour de France will start in London; this will be the third time that the Tour has passed through England and the first time that the race has begun there.
Did you ever wonder what it is that we do on Thursday nights at Maine Running Company? Here’s a video of some of the folks I work with:
Ethan Hemphill won the 41st running of the Yarmouth Clam Festival Classic. Yarmouth was covered in fog a few hours before the race, and it managed to burn off at just the perfect rate to have a nice and humid Clam Festival Classic 5 mile race. By the time we started our cool down, it…
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Yay! Glad you both got your places.
I just got an email from my credit card to let me know that a charge above my threshold just posted to it. Since I haven’t used that card much in the last few months, I had to check it out.
I had forgotten I had used that one to put the NYC bill on.