In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about things that deserve more attention throughout the month of October. This week, I am also going to take part in Blog Action Day and discuss the environmental impact of running. Running is a good activity in which to…
The Maine Marathoner was last weekend and was won by Dan Vassallo as he powered through to a 2:26:54 in his first marathon. He beat Byrne Decker‘s course record from last year by 3 minutes; Byrne finished in 3rd this year, 9 minutes from the front. The winning relay team was the Dirigo Masters team,…
Active.com is integrating the community and training logs from Cool Running into The Active Network. For those of you that use Cool Running, here is what you can expect in the very near future: Your login name will now be your email address and not your member name. You will now have an editable Display…
The Craig’s Cup 5k cross country race was this morning, which once again served double duty as the Maine USATF cross country state championship race. There were over 200 people registered runners and 180 finishers this year, which had near perfect racing weather and conditions despite the heavy rain over the past day and a…
This week last year I was getting ready for the New York City marathon, although that did not keep me from racing. I had not quite started tapering yet, though. I planned out my NYC race strategy, since I would be pacing a friend through his first one. Our race almost exactly mimicked the race…
Wes is a frequent reader and commenter, and he is not sure what to do after missing a long run. He has worked up to 14 miles, and skipped his 16 miler. His concern was whether he should stick to his scheduled 5 miler this next weekend, or whether he should make up the 16…
Well, this weekend happened to be a very busy one, but I took it off and spent some time with friends instead of paying attention to the running world. I was not able to score a Red Sox playoff ticket, although I did get to go to the circus across the street from Fenway. They…
This past weekend, I held a contest to win 180 music downloads from the eMusic.com website. The contest is now officially over, and if you entered then you had between a 5% and 10% chance of winning (depending upon whether you were one of the few people to both comment and link to the contest)….
The recap for what I wrote this week last year is a little late this week, but I decided that a weekend off now and again is a good thing and went down to Boston to visit the circus. There was a lot that happened this weekend, between the heat and debacle at Chicago to…
There is less than a day left before I hold a drawing for the eMusic.com gift card…If you are interested in entering the contest, be sure to leave a comment on the contest article: https://news.runtowin.com/2007/10/05/180-free-music-downloads.html