In early/mid 2008, my friend Steve Speirs started a website to help people do 100 consecutive pushups. If you ever visited a fitness blog around that time then you undoubtedly saw people making the attempt using Steve’s training schedules (many of whom succeeded, I might add.) Fast forward a year, and in June of 2009…
The Weekly Back Cove Race Series is now 15 weeks in, with 1 more month of races remaining. There have been 6 different winners in the past 3 weeks since my last update. Emily Durgin (19:10) and Curtis Wheeler (16:56) won on August 8th. Matt Lunt (17:20) and Kristen Sweeney (20:24) won on August 12th….
A popular book that came out recently is Born To Run by Christopher McDougall. (I’ll have a review up on the book one of these days – it was a good read.) If you’re familiar with the book, then you’ll get a kick out of Chris’s appearance on the Daily Show last night (click through…
Sorry for the late notice, I just found out that the 3rd Annual Maine Coach & Athlete Cross Country Clinic is today and hadn’t noticed it on the schedule before now. The past two years were very informative; if you’d like to read my notes on those clinics than you can start here: 2007 Cross…
Traditionally, a runner that false starts a race is allowed to remain in the field if he is the first one to do so, although any subsequent false starts mean that the runner will be disqualified. That first false start is charged to the field. Starting on January 1st, 2010, that will no longer be…
This past weekend, I was unable to run the Beach to Beacon due to the slight problem of having just broken my foot. Fortunately for me, that meant that I was able to volunteer and see the race from a different perspective. I decided to volunteer with the folks from Atayne at the finish line…
This morning was the 11th Annual TD BankNorth Beach to Beacon 10k in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. It was a beautiful day in the mid-80s that left the runners very happy to reach the shade on Shore Rd. Repeating last year’s performance, Ed Muge led the way in 28:05, about 13 seconds behind last year’s time….
152 ran ahead of the rain in humid weather in the low 70s last night during the Weekly Back Cove 5k. Ed Parrot won his debut weekly 5k appearance with a time of 17:20. Emily Durgin repeated her performance from 2 weeks ago, winning the women’s race in 18:36. cutting 20 seconds off of her…
Emily’s Run this weekend marks the 2nd of 3 races in the Triple Crown 5k Race Series, and despite the rain the race saw a record attendance of 581 runners. Times were a little slower this year but both races were close, with Corey Bean and Ryan Fitzsimons racing neck and neck through the finish…
200 runners took part in last night’s Back Cove race, enjoying the sunny temperatures in the low 70s in downtown Portland. (Somebody pretending to be) Jorma Kurry ran for the first time this year, finishing first in 16:32 with nobody anywhere near him. Abbey Gosling has started a new win streak with her 19 minute…