It’s been a long time coming…but Run to Win has gotten a facelift! My old theme was designed over 5 years ago and hasn’t changed much since. Now, the site should be a bit easier to navigate, it should be easier to find what you are looking for, and little things such as the YouTube…
I need to replace my Road ID as I lost my last one (I’ve had 2 or 3 already.) I like having the security of knowing that if I get hit by a car again that the emergency workers who find me will know who I am and who to contact if I’m unconscious (or…
I saw this tip recently from my buddy Endurance Dave Hanenburg and thought I should share it. If you’ve ever run with a hydration pack before, you know that the air trapped in the bladder can lead to the pack bouncing around on your back and making an annoying sloshing sound that drowns out all…
Olympic silver medalist, Mebrahtom Keflezighi, is one of the best, if not the best distance runner that the US has produced in the last few years. This weekend, he’s going to be trying to defend his New York City Marathon title, as he joins up with some of the best runners in the world. It’s…
The New York City Marathon is always the last race of the year for the World Marathon Majors. For 2009-2010, the results of this race won’t make any difference in the long run as both Sammy Wanjiru and Lillya Shobukhova have the title locked up. (Well, technically Sammy could lose, but it isn’t likely to…
I had the pleasure of volunteering at the 2010 Mount Desert Island Marathon and had my camera out to capture some video at the starting line and at the half-marathon point. I also got a few interviews at the finish line once everybody had passed through the half marathon. The race couldn’t have been run…
The 2011 Boston Marathon sold out in around 9 hours yesterday. While it’s great that the sport is going so strongly, races selling out 6 months before they are even run leads to a really poor customer experience for the runners. It’s stressful and seems odd that the people with the best chance of getting…
Blog Action Day is a time when authors from all over the internet write about a single topic, and this year’s topic is about the availability (or lack of) water in many developing nations. Over 3000 blogs are going to highlight this topic throughout the course of the day, with a reach of over 28…
There’s a new (or at least revisited) trend in the running shoe industry to build more “minimalist” or “naturalist” type shoes that don’t alter our gait quite as much as a traditional stability shoe. The theory is that our bodies were evolved to run a certain way and we can help prevent injuries by using…
This past weekend was a busy one for racing. In the Portland area was the Craig Cup, which is the USATF-ME cross country championship race. Up at Sunday River, though, there were races both days. On Saturday was the North American Wife Carrying Competition, which oddly enough doesn’t require that the participants be married, just…