New Boston Marathon Qualifying Standards

The Boston Marathon has announced the new qualifying standards, which will go into effect in 2013. Basically, runners will need to run at least 5 minutes and 59 seconds faster than the current standards in order to BQ. (The standards are all being made 5 minutes...

Contact Forms are Fixed

The recent change in hosting here at Run to Win meant that the contact forms on the website were broken – so if you have tried to get a hold of me in the past few weeks but haven’t heard back from me, I apologize and ask that you send your email again....

The 2011 Mid Winter Classic Has Been Postponed

Unfortunately, the police have said that the shoulders in Cape Elizabeth will now be plowed back far enough for 800 runners by Sunday morning, so the race has been postponed until February 27th. You can get the full details on the Mid-Winter Classic website. If you...

Ghost Town 38.5 – Course Flyover

A couple of weeks ago I got to run the last Ghost Town 38.5 (click here for my race report) which takes the runners up Highway 152 for 6 miles and then sends them off into the Gila National Forest for the majority of the race before turning us around and sending us...

2011 Bradbury Squall – My First Snowshoe Race

I went into the 2011 Bradbury Squall having no idea about what to expect, having never run a snowshoe race before and having run an ultramarathon the previous weekend. Since I didn’t know how long it would take me, how fast I could run, or how I would compare to the other runners, I just wanted to finish in the top third of all finishers and called that good for my goal going into the race. It was a good race, with a start and finished on groomed double track and the majority of the race taking place on single track.