The Safe Passage 5k was this morning in Cumberland, Maine. A record number of participants showed up this morning, not least because of the passing of Hanley Denning this past Winter. She started the Safe Passage program, which provides education to the children who live in the Guatemala City garbage dump. The race raised about…
Raymond Britt ran the Boston Marathon this year with his camera, and he got some really great pictures. Even though he was an hour plus behind me, I can remember a lot of the spectators that he took pictures of. It’s really cool to see that those people were out there for hours cheering runners…
This year I am attempting the other side of the sport by joining the board of directors for the New England Mile. We had a meeting today to discuss how the planning is going, and we seem to be ahead of last year’s schedule. We are still looking for sponsors, but we have all of…
Parry O’Brien revolutionized the shot putting competition in the early 50s when he begin spinning 180° before loosing the shot. He broke the world record 17 times in total, and won 2 gold medals and a silver medal over 12 years. He retired from athletic competition in 1966, but was still in shape and active….
The London Marathon was today, and over 5000 runners were treated with over 70 being sent along to the hospital after the temperatures got up near 70°F. This equals the 1996 heat record for the race. Martin Lel won the men’s race by three seconds in 2:07:41, outsprinting Abderrahim Goumri and Felix Limo. The lead…
After the race, it was cold. Anybody that knows me knows that I do not say that lightly. No matter which block you were on, it was windy. The finish line is similar to New York City, where they do their very best to funnel you away from the finish line as fast as possible….
Last night, I shared a few thoughts and memories of the Athlete’s Village before the Boston Marathon. The following are my watch splits, which will be off a little bit from the official splits. I will share those later. For a change, I hit almost every mile split. The only one that I missed was…
The weather did not wind up being nearly as bad as everybody had claimed that it would be. That being said, I had some trouble keeping up with my race plan. I started out all right, but I never really got into the groove. I’ll follow a similar pattern with Boston as I did after…
Congratulations to the winners of the 111th Boston Marathon: Robert K Cheruiyot, 2:14:13 Lidiya Grigoryeva, 2:29:18
111th Boston Marathon 2007 At 12:54 PM, Blaine Moore has finished. Pace: 6:38 per mile Finish Time: 2:53:49