The RRCA has just announced a new partnership and corporate sponsorship, this time with Gaia Custom Apparel. GAIA’s mission is to be an innovative, world leader in the creation of custom made athletic gear. With input from athletes, we strive to provide better fitting gear. Our athletic apparel is focused on the unique needs and…
If you are interested in a fun but challenging trail race, then the 2nd of 3 races out at Bradbury Mountain State Park is this weekend on Sunday, August 10th. There are still spots open in the race if you are interested in a unique experience. From the registration form: Two laps of an exceptionally…
Imagine that you are in a race, and you have been working with another runner for many miles. You know that you are both running faster than you could have alone, and there’s a $1000 pot for the first place finish. Would you be able to share that win, and the pot, or would you…
Topics this week last year were dominated by the Beach to Beacon. I started the week off by offering 4 ways to determine the length of a pool in response to a reader question on the matter. Maine Running Company hosted a talk by John L Parker, Jr. where he discussed his history as a…
The 10th annual TD Banknorth Beach to Beacon 10k was this morning in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. As always, it was a closely contested race that is great for spectating. While the temperature was not very high during the race, it was quite humid. Unlike last year, the fog never burned off so that combined with…
In 1998, Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Tyree Washington and Michael Johnson set the American 4x400m record with a time of 2:54.20. That record is in discussions to be removed, with the 2:54.29 that was run in the 1993 World Outdoor Championships getting reinstated. Young was banned for life in 2004, and Pettigrew has recently admitted…
Did you ever wonder what it is that we do on Thursday nights at Maine Running Company? Here’s a video of some of the folks I work with:
It was a beautiful evening for a run tonight. Now that week 12 is under the bag, there are only 6 races left so if you haven’t run yet then you need to show up next week in order to appear on the leader board. Chris Harmon made his first appearance since week 3, repeating…
Last night, I asked whether or not you would give your medical information to a race before running it, since that is what is being requested by the organizers of the Beach to Beacon this year. The founder of the company that is partnering with the Beach to Beacon to collect that information, Margie Kelly,…
The Beach to Beacon is trying something that I haven’t seen a lot of to date. They are trying to collect relevant medical data on as many of their runners as they can so that if there is an emergency it will be available to the first responders who are on site. I am relatively…