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Dick Pound has now responded to the report exhonerating Lance Armstrong from the doping allegations of last August. He claims that the reports finding are “farcical” and full of holes. He said the report had so many factual errors that “pointing them out would probably take as much space as the [132-page] report.” WADA will…
Last January, Bode Miller accused Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong of using steroids in a Rolling Stones interview. Well, Lance Armstrong has now used Men’s Journal to call out Bode Miller: “Listen, I’m not a fan,” Armstrong said. “He attacked me, and it’s hard to be a fan when you get attacked personally. I wanted…
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Week four of the nineteen week Back Cove 5k Race Series was tonight, and there was a good turn out. There have been over 70 people registered over the past month for the series, which is more than I expected this early in the season. Today, I went out not knowing what to expect. Since…
Last August, I wrote about how Lance Armstrong was accused of doping in the 1999 Tour de France. French newspaper L’Equipe accused Lance Armstrong of using EPO, an illegal steroid. A Dutch anti-doping agency has exhonerated Lance Armstrong and claims that not only is there validity to the testing methods that were used, but that…
The Vermont City Marathon was the most part a very well run race. I have a detailed course analysis already written, and here I would like to touch on a few other aspects of the race.
Here are my splits from the Vermont City Marathon this past Sunday. I did not get a split at mile 26, so the last split is actually for 1.2 miles or around thereabouts. Also, miles 7 and 11 did not get clicked until I was a bit past them as I was busy sucking down…
Over at Complete Running, they used to have a feature called “Running Blog Recents” which has been missing for the last few weeks. The Running Blog Recents is an RSS feed that lists the latest articles for over 700 websites that deal with running. The reason that the Running Blog Recents has been missing has…
The Vermont City Marathon has a very spectator friendly course. My fiance was easily able to see me run by 6 times. The course is also a bored runner friendly course, because there are no multi-lap segments. You do cross over the same points more than once, but only once are you going in the…