Picking Marathoners’ Brains about Boston

by Blaine Moore | Workout Tips

Just a quick note this morning: I happened upon a great article at BU Today where a first time Boston runner interviewed some noteable folks about the Boston Marathon with a bent towards getting tips for a first timer. It’s a great ready, and features advice...

How To Recover From Miscounting the Weeks Until Your Marathon

by Blaine Moore | Reader Questions, Workout Tips

Have you ever miscounted the number of weeks between when you start a training schedule and the day of your marathon? Have you ever realized 2 or 3 weeks out from your race that your schedule ends a week or two early or else goes right through your race and has the...

Duncan Kibet Does His Best Shiva Impression in Rotterdam

by Blaine Moore | Race Results

This weekend saw a lot of great racing, with at least 10 runners below 2 hours and 7 minutes in races around the world. Six of them were in Paris alone! Most impressive, of course, is Duncan Kibet and James Kwambai’s 2:04:27 marathon in Rotterdam, where Kibet...

The Great Bay Half Marathon (2009)

by Blaine Moore | Race Results

Today was my first experience with the Great Bay Half Marathon, and I really enjoyed it. It’s a well organized event on a good course. The weather was absolutely beautiful, although there were some pretty strong winds throughout much of it that made moving fast...

Using a Race To See What Level of Fitness You Have

by Blaine Moore | Fitness

Last year, when I was training for the Cox Sports Marathon, I set a series of races and times onto my training schedule that I thought I should be able to meet at that point in my training to make sure that I was on track as I went along. I ran a 10 miler, a half...

Kara Goucher’s Most-Overhyped Sunday Run Ever

by Blaine Moore | Sports

After the Boston Indoor Games, Kara Goucher went for a leisurely Sunday Run along the Boston Marathon Course. Not willing to miss a chance at building a circus, the media was there to watch her leisurely 7:00/mile jog along the last 20 miles of the course....

Haile Gebrsellassie did not run 2:02:37 (yet)

by Blaine Moore | Race Results

I’m heading for bed, so I’m laying this story to to bed as well. Yes, the Marathon des Sables is 151 miles long. No, there is no 26.2 mile option. Yes, today is April 1st. And finally, no, Haile Gebrsellassie was not running a world record marathon by...

Haile Gebrselassie Runs 2:02:37 at Marathon Des Sables in Morocco!

by Blaine Moore | Race Results

Having broken the world record in the marathon a couple times over the past few years, you had to expect that Haile Gebrselassie was going to be doing something special again in the next few. Who could have expected, though, that after breaking 2 hours and 4 minutes...

Jamaica to USA » “Bring It On!”

by Blaine Moore | Sports

It has been less than a month since USATF CEO Doug Logan challenged the JAAA to a dual meet series pitting the two nations best sprinters, jumpers and hurdlers against one another in team competition. The meets have been scheduled, and will happen in May and June of...

Naked Pole Vaulter Romaine Mesnil Seeks Sponsorship

by Blaine Moore | News

Romain Mesnil’s contract with Nike expired last year and wasn’t renewed. “It was probably for budgetary and strategic reasons. It’s the crisis,” Mesnil said. Mesnil is one of the best pole vaulters in France, right now. So what’s...