Running with the Buffaloes: A Book Review

by | Books, Reviews

Running with the Buffaloes is a book told from the experiences of Chris Lear and his season with the University of Colorado’s men’s 1998 cross country team. It fills the reader in on what it takes to train for a team that is nationally competitive every...

Friendly’s New England Mile (2005)

by | Race Results, Sports

The inaugeral Friendly’s New England Mile was this morning. It runs through downtown Portland on Congress Street, from the Roma to Lincoln Park at the base of Munjoy Hill. The course features a 70 foot drop, and they have been billing it as an opportunity to see...

Without Limits: A Movie Review

by | Movies, Reviews

Without Limits is a story about Steve Prefontaine, a runner for the University of Oregon. I enjoyed the movie much more than Prefontaine, which was released a year earlier. Donald Sutherland does an excellent job narrating the story as Bill Bowerman, the eventual...

Cold Summer and Diving Dogs

by | Fitness, Personal

Last night it was a bit chilly and it has been raining for a few days, so instead of doing 880s in Baxter Woods as we had on the schedule we went to Bradley Street to run. Bradley street is similar to Baxter Woods in an opposite sort of way (if that makes sense.) In...

Morning Glory Drugs

by | Food & Beverage

Yesterday I left a note about the women’s 5k in Brunswick that a number of my teammates ran. After the race, they had the awards ceremony. They had some really big trophies for the overall winners and for the master’s winners and the like, and most of the...

Catching Up and On the Move

by | Sports

I am still trying to catch up on everything, especially my sleep. I seem to have been getting enough every day since my 27 hour work day, but I am still fair on tired and got the aching back thing going. We will see if running tonight will help me sleep and then feel...

Exhaustion Take 2

by | Personal

I thought that I was tired before…I am going on 20 hours here at work, with a fairly fast 5 mile run about 3 hours in. Not only that, but I did not bring enough food with me to work for a normal day let alone my still being here this morning. Oh well, hence...

Mile Time Trials

by | Fitness

It does not matter how little you have recently run, or what kind of speed work you have done, there is always that little barrier that says “You must pass me or you will not be satisfied”. You can push and put in a great effort, but 2 or 3 seconds slow...

Ghoulash

by | Food & Beverage, Recipes

Everybody has a favorite food. Some people like Pizza. Some people like Chocolate. Some people like peanut butter cookies. Some people like french bread. My favorite food is probably ghoulash. My mother used to make it for me as a kid, and it was one of the first...