Nova Marathon Challenge

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You may have read about the Nova Marathon Challenge at this year’s Boston Marathon. Tufts University coach Donald Megerle and 3-time Boston winner Uta Pippig took a dozen people off of the street and trained them for the marathon over a span of 9 months....

Once a Runner movie trailer

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Last week, John Parker spoke at the Maine Running Company about his book, Once a Runner, and the upcoming sequel. During his talk, he mentioned that the easiest money in the world is to sell the options to your book to somebody interested in making a movie about it....

Chariots of Fire movie review

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Chariots of Fire is a movie about Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, two very talented runners in the early 1920s. Two men with the same goal but who have vastly different approaches to attaining that goal and to living their life. Eric Liddell is a devout follower of...

Breaking Away movie review

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Breaking Away is a dated movie. It reeks of the 70s. Not that that is a bad thing, but I don’t think that it really translates very well for younger folk. Maybe the younger folk will watch it and disagree with me. The basic story is about a kid who graduates...

“The Long Run” movie review

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The Long Run is a movie about an old coach in South Africa who is obsessed with the Comrades Ultra-Marathon. After getting fired from his job and losing the right to coach his four runners, he discovers an illegal immigrant with the raw talent to win the race. He...