2011 Gansett Marathon

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A couple of weeks ago I ran the first Gansett Marathon, which was the second annual race as it was moved from last year’s location in Exeter, Rhode Island to Naragansett to accommodate a larger field. This year’s race was just as well organized as last...

2011 Boston Marathon Race Results

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Patriot’s Day means the Boston Marathon here in New England, when countless throngs line the streets between Hopkinton and Beantown and cheer on thousands of runners as they make their way along. I’ve run Boston twice, and I honestly think that I prefer...

2011 Boston Marathon Preview

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The World Marathon Majors are set to get going again this year, with two of the races falling on the same weekend. Normally, the London Marathon and the Boston Marathon are about a week apart, but this year they fall on the same weekend. Here’s who to keep an...

Run/Walk Experiment 2 – No Training Edition

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Last year, I laid out my plans about a week before the inaugural Exeter Marathon. I ran a Magic Mile and used Jeff Galloway’s charts to convert that mile time into a marathon time, and talked about my run/walk strategy I was planning on running. Fast forward a...

NJ Ultra Festival – Marathon

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Since a 100 mile race wasn’t in the cards given that I hadn’t done the training I had wanted to over the previous 5 months, I got to run a marathon instead with a friend of mine. The last time we had run a marathon together had been in 2006, so we were...