5 Questions You Can Ask Yourself

by | Personal, Workout Tips

I have been tagged by the Run Faster blog with a running meme, so I thought that I would take the opportunity to answer a few questions about myself that you will hopefully find interesting and useful to your own running. Hopefully you will be able to either relate...

Traffic Safety Seminar » July 23

by | News

The Portland Bicycle Commuters are putting on another seminar next week, this month about Traffic Safety. This seminar will focus on knowledge and techniques to enable cyclists to ride safely and confidently with car traffic on public roads. This month’s seminar...

The Neck Is Doing Much Better

by | Injuries, Personal

Thanks for the emails over the weekend; my neck is doing much better tonight than it was a couple days ago. On Friday afternoon, I tweaked or pulled something when I began my run that led to my spending the rest of the afternoon on the couching and requiring...

Asafa Powell injures his groin

by | Injuries, Race Results

Last night at the Golden Gala track meet in Rome, Asafa Powell pulled up in the 100 meters with a groin injury. He is the former world record holder and is one of the favorites in Beijing next month. “He’s OK, but he felt his groin cramp up and stopped...

Liliana Popescu barred from Olympics for Doping

by | News

Liliana Popescu is one of the fastest 1500m runners in the world this year, clocking 4:00.35 at at a grand prix meet in Bucharest a few days before the indoor world championships. Unfortunately, she is probably not going to be able to display her talents on the world...

Weekly Back Cove Race Series » Week 9

by | Race Results

I’ll admit it. Having never met Curtis Wheeler before, and seeing the pace he set from the very beginning, I fully expected him to blow up within a half mile and fall back to the crowd. Of course, I didn’t find out who he was until after the race, or else...

Maine Woods Trail Marathon has been canceled

by | News

Sad news today, as the Maine Woods Trail Marathon has been canceled this year. The Maine Woods Trail Marathon has been cancelled for this year! A storm went over the area last week and took down many trees which made the trail impassable in many places. Six bridges...

Tyson Gay Updates

by | Injuries, News, Race Results

It was not too long ago that Tyson Gay ran the fastest 100 meters that any human has ever done. He had the assistance of a good tailwind, which will keep him out of the record books, but that is still impressive none the less. Even so, he is stronger in the 200 meter...