The Maine Marathon is next Sunday on October 4th, and volunteers are still needed! It’s a big undertaking for one of Maine’s showcase events, so if you have some extra time and can help out you should head into Portland. Volunteers will be given a T-Shirt and a coupon to attend a 2010 Portland Sea…
Last year, Atayne cleaned up after the Maine Marathon by organizing a trash run. This Summer, they did the same thing for the Beach to Beacon. I wasn’t able to participate in either one, as I was out of town at a wedding for the marathon last year, and had a broken foot this year….
Eddie Izzard is a British comedian that is better known for his lifestyle choices (as a transvestite) and for his acting and stand up routines than he is for his sporting activities. This Summer, though, he decided to raise money for “Sport Relief” by going for a few runs. In the course of 7 weeks,…
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 down by almost 2 minutes…
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 her running for the past few years. I caught up with…
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 her win in the women’s race. The top of the…
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 on September 16th….
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."
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 on the heels of Kenenisa Bekele’s 12:52.32 and Edwin Cheruiyot…
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 12:52.32. That’s almost 4 seconds faster than his…