$1500 for a sub-4:00 downhill mile on Sunday!

by | News, Sports

The Downeast Group at Smith Barney has come to the rescue of the New England Mile and is sponsoring the sub-4:00 minute mile prize of $1500 this year. Jeff Caron and Gabe Rivard are signed up to help bring Louie Luchini through in under four minutes. Top female master...

ING New York City Marathon lottery results (2007)

by | News

The ING New York City Marathon has a lottery for who gets to run. The results are now available (as of about noon this morning) and can be searched at their website: The lottery has sifted through more than 98,000 applicants from around the world to select the...

Does free speech cover NCAA championship reporting?

by | News

Brian Bennett is a reporter who writes live updates to a website during NCAA championship games. He’s done it at the Orange Bowl. He’s done it at the NCAA basketball tournament. And now he is doing it at at the NCAA baseball tournament. At least, he was...

Yard Work

by | Fitness

In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about alternative exercises throughout the month of June. Cross training can easily be expanded outside of the realms of running, weight lifting, bicycling and swimming. A great...

This Week Last Year: Marathons and Running

by | Last Year

This week last year, I did a lot of talking about running and marathons. It was a popular topic, because the seed of quite a few of my articles came from what other people wrote. In most cases, I didn’t completely agree (or completely disagreed) with what those...

How to choose a Power Rack

by | Equipment

For home gym enthusiasts, a power rack is a handy machine to purhase (or build) when you are ready to get past the bench and dumbbells phase. It is a compact box that allows you safely perform a plethora of exercises that would normally require a lot of floor space if...

A new women only half marathon (sort of…)

by | Sports

The Maine Coast Half Marathon is a new race this September that only allows registration from women. Registration is capped at 1500 women and one man. If you want to be well and truly girled, here’s the perfect opportunity. The first Maine Coast Half Marathon at...

Running with Autism

by | News

Alex and Jamie Schneider are two teenagers with non-verbal autism. They are 16 year old identical twins who needed some way to focus their attention and burn off their energy. Their parents got them into running, and now it is their favorite activity. They get so...