Running Teams and World War II

by Blaine Moore | Sports

I was reading Vince Hemingson’s take over at Boston or Bust about running competitively with a group and how that is not really a good thing. This particular sin is that of judging your performance and measuring your progress and success against the people you...

ING New York City Marathon lottery results (2006)

by Blaine Moore | News, Sports

The ING New York City Marathon has a lottery for who gets to run. The results are now available (as of about 11am this morning) and can be searched at their website: Both my friend that I am going to run with and I got in. I would have been surprised had we not been,...

Front Squat advice requested

by Blaine Moore | Fitness

This morning, I tried doing front squats for the first time. I fairly quickly abandoned them, however, and only did one set before going back to normal squats to finish my other sets. Perhaps it is that I am still fatigued from the marathon, or my form is way off, but...

Marathon recovery training tips

by Blaine Moore | Fitness

I was going through the recently restored Running Blog Family list of articles published over the last day or so, and found an article over at Boston Dreams and Michelin Stars that dealt with a similar topic as I did when I wrote about how marathon recovery is not...

Marathon recovery is not instantaneous

by Blaine Moore | Fitness

After running your marathon, you will fall into one of three camps. You are hurting and you can not imagine ever doing something like this again.You are hurting and are set to take the next few weeks/months completely off to recoverYou feel pretty good and think you...

Vitruvian Running Shoes

by Blaine Moore | Equipment, Shoes

I am considering the purchase of a pair of Vitruvian Running Shoes. I first heard about them after listening to an interview with the owner of Vitruvian Running on Run Cast Weekly. The shoes are mail order only, and have a very good return policy. I emailed the...

Complete Running » Running Blog Recents returns!

by Blaine Moore | News

Complete Running’s Running Blog Recents has been down for the last few weeks, but they are now back up and running. You can visit the Running Blog Recents webpage by pointing yourself to the following URL:...

Dick Pound rejects Lance Armstrong exhoneration

by Blaine Moore | News, Sports

Dick Pound has now responded to the report exhonerating Lance Armstrong from the doping allegations of last August. He claims that the reports finding are “farcical” and full of holes. He said the report had so many factual errors that “pointing them...

Lance Armstrong calls out Bode Miller (and Dick Pound)

by Blaine Moore | News

Last January, Bode Miller accused Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong of using steroids in a Rolling Stones interview. Well, Lance Armstrong has now used Men’s Journal to call out Bode Miller: “Listen, I’m not a fan,” Armstrong said. “He...

Complete Running will be down for the weekend

by Blaine Moore | News

Complete Running will be down for a few days as they switch hosting providers. While it is available, you can see the press release at their site: Complete Running. If you are reading this while they are down, here is their press release verbatim (if anybody from...