Irish Road Rover (2008)
The 2008 running of the Irish Road Rover 5k was this morning in relatively warm but very windy conditions. The team competition was broken into 3 separate types of teams, club teams, open teams and corporate teams.
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Irish Road Rover will feature team competition this year
The 2008 running of the Irish Road Rover 5k in Portland, Maine will feature a team competition for the first time. The race is this Sunday, March 9th, at 11:00 in front of the the Brian Ború pub. The race also has a new website this year with more information: irishroadrover.com. Pre-Race packet pickup will…
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This Week Last Year: Pub Racing, Weight Lifting, and Gloves
Just about all of the news this week last year was about making your body better. There was a race report, a review of some gloves, and a whole bunch of articles about lifting weights and getting in shape. I continued the animated lifting series with instructions on how to do swiss ball dumbbell bench…
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2007 Irish Road Rover 5k (Brian Ború’s)
The 11th annual Irish Road Rover was this morning in Portland, ME. The weather was absolutely beautiful. Members of Dirigo R.C. took 5 of the top 10 spots in the race, including the top 3. Not everybody registered as Dirigo, though. Claton Conrad handily won the race by over half a minute, coming through in…
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Irish Road Rover will kick off the local running season
I have already run the Mid-Winter Classic, but it sort of stands on it’s own despite being a Maine Grand Prix race this year. The official start to the racing season seems to be the
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Early season pub races
It seems to me as though early season races are usually sponsored by Pubs. Maybe it is only Maine, with last week’s Brian Ború race and this week’s Kerryman Pub Race but I know of a few races this time of year in New York that are also sponsored by taverns. I suppose one reason…
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Irish Road Rover 5k (Brian Ború’s) (2006)
The Irish Road Rover 5k was yesterday morning in Portland, and the weather was fantastic. It was a very fast race for a season opener in Maine, with a winning time of 15:44 by Ethan Hemphill. Two other folk made it under 16 minutes, Kevin Tilton and Chris Muentener. There were also 5 other people…