Former NFL running back Amani Toomer is going to run the New York City Marathon this year, and if you are running as well then he’ll be gunning for you! Toomer is the first NFL player to run in 17 years, and he wants to raise money for New York Road Runners youth programs. To…
One problem with races that require you to register months in advance is that it can mean you wasted your money if you can’t run for some reason. If you get injured, or decide to go on vacation, or have any other commitment come up then you are usually out of luck. Another problem with…
There can be a lot of reasons for chest pain, and any time you have experience it (especially during exercise) then you should probably visit your doctor to make sure that nothing serious is going on. If you have been cleared by your doctor as healthy or would like to try a simple self-remedy to alleviate the pain, then you may just need to change your breathing habits.
What do you get when you combine 25 gig of photos with some on-course digital audio and some time spent with your favorite video editing software? For Ryan Mercer, you get a really neat stop motion video of his view of the 2010 Keybank Vermont City Marathon:
Bernard Lagat set a new 5000 meter American Record earlier today when he ran 12:54.12 for a 3rd place overall finish at the ExxonMobile Bislett Games in Oslo. That’s 2.15 seconds faster than Dathan Ritzenhein’s previous record of 12:56.27, which was set last August at the Weltklasse Meet in Zurich. Chris Solinsky was close behind,…
This Wednesday was the 4th Back Cove 5k of the season, and the air quality was less than ideal given the smoke and ash particles coming our way from the forest fires in Quebec. The temperature was a nice 57 degrees, although the air was very dry despite looking humid from the general haze. I…
My good friend and fellow Trail Monster Jamie Anderson wasn’t able to run on Saturday, but he brought his video camera to catch the action and put together this great video that gives you a good idea of what it was like to race in the Pineland Farms Barefoot 5k: It was a fun race,…
Here’s a quick clip that my friend Stephen Wells took during this weekend’s barefoot 5k: I was getting close to the end of the race here, and had passed quite a few people from the “normal” 5k that started 10 minutes before the barefoot race. Nobody that was shod ran faster than me, since I…
The Pineland Farms Festival of Races was this weekend, and it made what was already a great event into something for the whole family. Along with the normal 25k, 50k and 50 mile races that have been offered for the past few years, an additional day of racing and festivities was added which included 10k,…
When I was a young whippersnapper, the idea of running a marathon held nothing for me. I used to express to people I would run a marathon on the twelfth of Never. Actually, I thought marathons had to be an acquired taste, much like chicken pox is an acquired illness. I hated the idea, nay,…