Presidential Road Race (2006)

The Presidential Road Race is a 5 miler in Kennebunkport Maine. The race was missing its perennial favorite to win, Ethan Hemphill, who had not lost the race since 2002. Beautiful weather helped Patrick Moulton of Pelham, New Hampshire cruise into a 4 minute and 39...

Week 5 NFL Picks

This week, I need to make up for my past performance in odd weeks and do a little better. Atlanta, Cincinnati, Houston, Seattle have byes this week and will not be playing. It is shaping up to look like there is a whole lot of home field advantage this week. Miami has...

Never bandit a race under any circumstances

I do not hold with banditing races and I never have. A bandit in a race is any person that runs the course and makes use of the race support but has not paid for the right to be there. Jon over at the complete running network wrote about how he no longer holds with...

Why do you run?

Joan Nesbit Mabe asked an elite athlete who wants her to coach him to write an essay on why he runs. Jason Jabaut spent a few weeks thinking about that, and after countless drafts wrote a bit over 400 words trying to explain it. In his essay (which you can read in...