Jennifer Pharr Davis first hiked the entire 2,181 miles of Appalachian Trail in 2005. In 2008, she returned, and covered the entire distance between Mount Katahdin in Maine and Springer Mountain in Georgia in 57 days, 8 hours, and 35 minutes, faster than any woman had ever covered the distance before. Yesterday (July 31, 2011),…
There hasn’t been a lot of news about Oscar Pistorius for a few years. Oscar is a double amputee that was banned by the IAAF for having an unfair advantage over able-bodied athletes, and then allowed back into competition following a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The position that the CAS took…
Memorial Day Weekend is the official start to Tourist Season in Maine. What better way to celebrate that then by taking part in the Pineland Farms Festival of Running? The Pineland Farms races began as a small event, and has grown to be a family friendly 2-day event that hosts around 1200 runners in 7…
Last week, I followed up the RRCA National Convention with a very short trip into Delaware for a marathon. Hey, if I’m going to be away from my wife for a week, I might as well get another state out of the way, right? I left my hotel in Virginia at 3:00 in the morning,…
The other day I got a question about the Beach to Beacon from Peggy Kulbe: Good morning . . . I happily have a number for BtoB, and would LOVE some training advice. I live in NJ and can not join the weekly runs. Can you let me know what each mile is like, i.e.,…
I saw this infographic recently and had to share it…more information about the state of Marathoning in one handy reference than you thought you needed. And yes, I know that that isn’t a picture of Haile Gebreselassie…I didn’t make the image, I’m just sharing it:
A couple of weeks ago I ran the first Gansett Marathon, which was the second annual race as it was moved from last year’s location in Exeter, Rhode Island to Naragansett to accommodate a larger field. This year’s race was just as well organized as last year’s was, although my own race didn’t go nearly…
Patriot’s Day means the Boston Marathon here in New England, when countless throngs line the streets between Hopkinton and Beantown and cheer on thousands of runners as they make their way along. I’ve run Boston twice, and I honestly think that I prefer watching the race over running it. It’s a great experience, and the…
The World Marathon Majors are set to get going again this year, with two of the races falling on the same weekend. Normally, the London Marathon and the Boston Marathon are about a week apart, but this year they fall on the same weekend. Here’s who to keep an eye out for in the Boston…
Last year, I laid out my plans about a week before the inaugural Exeter Marathon. I ran a Magic Mile and used Jeff Galloway’s charts to convert that mile time into a marathon time, and talked about my run/walk strategy I was planning on running. Fast forward a year, and it is now 2011 and…