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 instantaneous. Lance Martin wrote about how…
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 recover You feel pretty good and think you are ready to get going again…
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 company a month or two ago, and…
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: http://completerunning.com/running-blogs/?wptheme=Running+Blog+Recents+%28post%2Bupdates%29 If you would like to see a list of all participating website in the Running Blog Family, you…
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 out would probably take as much space as the [132-page] report.” WADA will…
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 attacked me, and it’s hard to be a fan when you get attacked personally. I wanted…
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 Complete Running has a problem with this let…
Week four of the nineteen week Back Cove 5k Race Series was tonight, and there was a good turn out. There have been over 70 people registered over the past month for the series, which is more than I expected this early in the season. Today, I went out not knowing what to expect. Since…
Last August, I wrote about how Lance Armstrong was accused of doping in the 1999 Tour de France. French newspaper L’Equipe accused Lance Armstrong of using EPO, an illegal steroid. A Dutch anti-doping agency has exhonerated Lance Armstrong and claims that not only is there validity to the testing methods that were used, but that…
The Vermont City Marathon was the most part a very well run race. I have a detailed course analysis already written, and here I would like to touch on a few other aspects of the race.