Portland Sea Dogs Mother’s Day 5k

by | Race Results, Sports

The Portland Sea Dogs held their 5th annual Mother’s Day 5k this morning. It was overcast and it drizzled off and on, and there was a fairly monstrous wind at the start, but the race has been growing by leaps and bounds. Not even (slightly) foul weather can stop...

Tom Brady signs New Contract

by | Sports

Tom Brady has signed a new contract with the Patriots. He had an $11 million 2 year contract remaining with the Patriots. Now, he has a 6 year contract worth about $60 million total, and is just coming into his prime as a quarterback. He is scheduled to make $14.5...

Database Planning

by | Run To Win Website, Technology

Getting the new roommate moved in is just about set. We have for the most part got the furniture and boxes of junk that we don’t want to keep in the apartment but aren’t ready to throw out yet in storage, and should be done with 1 or 2 more runs over...

Atlantic Time Zone

by | Uncategorized

One of my biggest pet peeves since moving to Maine is being on Eastern time. We are far enough east to be on Atlantic time, and I hate having the sun go down at 3:30 in the afternoon. The entire point of daylight savings was to save energy during World War II (at...

880s

by | Fitness

Running 800s (or 880s, as my coach refers to them) can be satisfying. We had a good 20 minute warm up, nice slow and easy. We got to the track before the high school meet had ended, so another 10 minute or so rewarmup was in order. The 800s were nothing fast (6:00...