This weekend I’m going to try something new by running the New Hampshire Marathon on Saturday and the Maine Marathon on Sunday. I’ve never done this before, but I feel that I’m in good enough shape for a pair of sub-3 hour marathons. New Hampshire will be a new race for me that I’ve never…
This past weekend I ran the Combat Cancer 10k cross country race at Pineland Farms. It was a lot of fun and was very well organized for a first year race. The only glitch I’m aware of was that the winner (who had helped marked the course!) got a little turned around halfway through the…
Yesterday afternoon I had a few minutes to chat with Meb Keflezighi, one of the best marathoners in the United States right now. He ran for UCLA in the mid/late 1990s, and among his many accomplishments, Meb is a 3 time national cross country champion, he won the Silver Medal at the 2004 Olympic Marathon,…
It’s Autumn, which means that Cross Country Season has arrived! This was always my favorite time of year growing up, mostly because cross country running is a lot of fun. For me, it definitely beats running on the track or roads. Running over the grass and trails for position rather than time makes it a…
I recently ran the Bradbury Bruiser, which is the third of three trail races at Bradbury Mountain State Park, and it was a lot of fun. It’s 12 miles of very twisty, very turny, mostly single track racing. There were multiple switch backs. There are sections where you can get dizzy if you are going…
Billy Mills was born in 1938 to the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Tribe and was the second Native American to win an Olympic gold medal. He’s also the only American to get a gold medal at 10,000 meters. The last lap of that race was tremendous. Billy Mills got to the Olympics after qualifying for both…
Can elite marathon runners listen to music when their running in marathons? The quick and easy answer to this is no they can’t. Some elite marathoners will train with their iPods, and some of them won’t. However, you’ll never see them actually racing with an iPod during a marathon, at least not here in the…
Once upon a time, Justin Gatlin broke the 100 meter world record by 1/100th of a second. It was then determined that his time was actually 9.766 seconds, which meant that his officially recorded time was equal to the world record of 9.77 seconds at that time. His time was later annulled when he received…
Dave Wottle was born in 1950 in Canton, Ohio and took up running in childhood on the advice of his family physician because he was so feeble. At Bowling Green State University, he finished in second place in the mile to Marty Liquori in 1970, and still holds the NCAA outdoor track 1 mile record…
My second of two races this weekend was the Bradbury Breaker. It’s a 9 mile trail race at Bradbury Mountain in Pownal, Maine. It was a good time, and I have to give big kudos to Ian and Ryan for once again putting on a first class event. The last couple of years, I’ve been…