This week last year was very light. I suggested that a regular sleep schedule is important. I think that this is a very important habit to cultivate. I updated a few stories that I had written about the week before. The alligator was caught that had killed the jogger down in Florida, and it was…
I have never run a race blind folded, but I have run many times (and raced a few times) without having the full use of my vision. This June there is a race in Boston called the Vision 5k where runners are blindfolded and given a guide so that they can experience what it is…
There has been an RSS feed for Run to Win available for the last few years, but I have finally gotten around to setting up email updates as well. If you would like to subscribe to the articles written here and have them show up in your email box every morning, just fill in your…
The latest ProBlogger group writing project is over and it was popular. Here are the exercise related lists that I saw in a quick perusal; let me know if I missed any:
In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about timeless exercises in different disciplines throughout the month of May. This week I would like to talk about one of the most important types of workouts for any competitive runner. What is interval training? According to the Merriam-Webster…
Every year, the Portland Sea Dogs put on a 5k race on Mother’s Day. The team mascot, Slugger, drives in the pace car with his mother around the course, which is one loop. It is a fun race that usually has less than ideal conditions. Not today, though. The weather was beautiful, with a slight…
This week last year was dominated by the news, without as many tips, suggestions and strategies as last week. The animated series continued with how to do assisted pushups. Brendan Fitzgerald shared a story about the Penn Relays, and then randomly won a copy of Coast to Coast. It was the first book that I…
Two years ago, I ran the Mystic Places Marathon. It was one of my favorite marathons that I have run to date, and I figured that I would run it again some day when I was closer to my goal of running one in all 50 states. Last year, the Mystic Places Marathon was renamed…
Man used to be a gatherer who had yet to learn how to fashion weapons that could kill things from a distance. He evolved a sense of balance and an ability to run to dead meat before anything else, which allowed him to get food before other animals. As he got better at this, he…
The Back Cove 5K Race Series has kicked off with it’s inaugeral race of the season, and we could not have asked for better weather. The temperature was in the high 60s, the wind was not as stiff as normal this time of year, and there were over 50 finishers for the first race of…