What does it mean to define a new normal in your training? Mike over at Fit36 posed that very question and answered it by following his own training progression as he has gotten fitter over the Summer. He just started running this past Spring and when he got started, he could run about 2 miles…
Next Sunday, October 17th is the 3rd Annual Reiche International 5K. Last year there were 185 runners that completed the fast and mostly flat course for a race that celebrates all of the 30 different nationalities that attend Reiche Elementary School.
The World Marathon Majors 2009-2010 season will most likely be decided tomorrow, as all of the top players in both the men’s and women’s races are running Chicago so none of the New York City runners are in contention unless there are some major upsets. The Americans should be able to put in a strong…
This past weekend I ran my first back-to-back marathons with the New Hampshire Marathon on Saturday and the Maine Marathon on Sunday. I came into this race feeling really good despite having run a marathon the day before other than a small muscle pull that I got relatively early into the previous race. The goal…
This past weekend I ran my first back-to-back marathons with the New Hampshire Marathon on Saturday and the Maine Marathon on Sunday. Obviously, the big concern is what do I do in between the races to keep from being completely stiff and sore on Sunday for the second race, right? Whatever I did must have…
This past weekend I ran my first back-to-back marathons with the New Hampshire Marathon on Saturday and the Maine Marathon on Sunday. I enjoyed the New Hampshire race, despite a few pretty serious drawbacks and running the first half mile behind some guys trying to run 2:20 pace. The race was pretty well organized, it’s…
I appropriately enough saw this tweet about a week before running a marathon: Question for marathon veterans: How many of you run (2-3 miles) day before? Or do you prefer to rest? It’s funny because my normal response is a bit different than my plan this weekend, as the day before one of my marathons…
This weekend I’m going to try something new by running the New Hampshire Marathon on Saturday and the Maine Marathon on Sunday. I’ve never done this before, but I feel that I’m in good enough shape for a pair of sub-3 hour marathons. New Hampshire will be a new race for me that I’ve never…
This past weekend I ran the Combat Cancer 10k cross country race at Pineland Farms. It was a lot of fun and was very well organized for a first year race. The only glitch I’m aware of was that the winner (who had helped marked the course!) got a little turned around halfway through the…
In 1980, Terry Fox started running across Canada to help raise awareness and funds for cancer research. Terry had lost his right leg to bone cancer 3 years earlier at the age of 18. Unfortunately, the spread of his cancer accelerated during the run and he had to stop after 143 days (and shortly thereafter…