My RIT Tigers made the front page at the NCAA website this week with their performance last weekend at the Geneseo Invitational. The RIT men’s cross country squad, ranked 23th in the latest NCAA Division III poll, finished second out of 18 teams at the Geneseo Invitational cross country meet hosted by SUNY Geneseo at…
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 not shown any…
Have you ever run a half marathon, or have you ever wanted to? Steve Runner, the host of the internet radio show Phedippidations, has organized a half marathon race that takes places in 23 different countries this weekend. The half marathon is a mutual race run by people all over the world either this Saturday…
The YES Network has a show called “Running!” that will be broadcast a few times per week throughout October beginning this Saturday. Information about the show can be seen at Sportfilm.com. Thanks to Jank at Run Mystic for the tip.
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…
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 full over at…
Catch me if you can is a website devoted to old race bibs and other running paraphernalia. The general idea is that the author had a lot of bibs with a lot of stories in his closet that he wanted to share with people, and thought that others might as well. So, he started up…
I just got an email from one of my teammates at Dirigo, Peter Hall. He is interested in reading Coast to Coast, a book about my former teammates who set the transcontinental relay record in running from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Pete pointed out to me, however, that the record that they were shooting…
In a collaborative effort with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing all about rest for the month of October. You can expect a new article on the matter every week. In general, there are only two types of rest that you can use during a workout. This is true in…
The 2006 Maine Marathon, Marathon Relay, and Half Marathon was this morning in Portland, Maine. The rain held off for the day and stayed down in New Hampshire, leading to ideal marathon weather. A problem with the starting mats made it impossible to capture net times, however, so only the gun time was available.