2009 Weekly Back Cove Race Series » Week 18

by Blaine Moore | Race Results

The final installment of the 2009 Weekly Back Cove Race Series was this evening, and 113 runners came out to participate. I also got out for my 7th race this year in the series, and my first one since I broke my foot. Curtis Wheeler (01:42:14) brought his overall time...

Inaugural Lex’s Run 5k is This Weekend

by Blaine Moore | News

This Saturday (September 12th, 2009) is the first edition of Lex’s Run, put on by Alexis Welch and her husband Doug to help raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Lex suffers from muscular dystrophy, and has been raising money for the MDA through...

2009 Weekly Back Cove Race Series » Week 17

by Blaine Moore | Race Results

After last night’s announcement that there would only be 2 more Back Cove races, 126 runners made their way out this evening in great running conditions for the race. Shawn Rumery led the way tonight, winning the race in 17:08. Jocelyn Olsen clocked 20:57 for...

Breaking News » The Back Cove 5k Series Ends a Week Early

by Blaine Moore | News

The Back Cove 5k Race Series was scheduled to go for 19 weeks this year, rather than the 18 weeks that it has been for the past 2 years. However, the last race is being dropped due to scheduling difficulties and so the series will end on September 09, 2009 instead of...

Dathan Ritzenhein Interview After Setting American Record

by Blaine Moore | Race Results

Thanks to Emily for pointing me at the following video interview from FloTrack. I think that this quote sums it up pretty well: "After last week in Berlin, I had so much confidence. I really felt like I belonged there." (Video Source:...

Dathan Ritzenhein Shatters Personal Best for American Record

by Blaine Moore | Race Results

Dathan Ritzenhein had the race of his life tonight, running what was until tonight only 0.02 seconds behind the world’s leading 5k time of the year. Cutting 20.3 seconds off of his personal best (set at the USA Outdoor Championships in 2006), he followed right...

Kenenisa Bekele Wins 16th Straight 5000m at Weltklasse Zurich

by Blaine Moore | Race Results

Can Kenenisa Bekele be beaten in a 5000 meter run? It doesn’t appear so. This evening at Weltklasse Zurich, the 5th of 6 meets in the Golden League track series, he outran his closest competitor (Edwin Cheruiyot Soi) by about 2½ seconds to win the race in...

2009 Weekly Back Cove Race Series » Week 16

by Blaine Moore | Race Results

127 runners were greeted with overcast skies and temperatures in the high 70s this evening for the 16th Back Cove 5k. Only 3 races remain in the series for 2009. The race was led by a couple of first time runners on the season, with Jason Scott leading the way in...

7 Weeks to 100 Pushups book review

by Blaine Moore | Books, Reviews

In early/mid 2008, my friend Steve Speirs started a website to help people do 100 consecutive pushups. If you ever visited a fitness blog around that time then you undoubtedly saw people making the attempt using Steve’s training schedules (many of whom...

2009 Weekly Back Cove Race Series » Weeks 13-15

by Blaine Moore | Race Results

The Weekly Back Cove Race Series is now 15 weeks in, with 1 more month of races remaining. There have been 6 different winners in the past 3 weeks since my last update. Emily Durgin (19:10) and Curtis Wheeler (16:56) won on August 8th. Matt Lunt (17:20) and Kristen...