The Cape Elizabeth Mid-Winter Classic 10 Miler is (almost) always the first Sunday in February. This year, the race was cancelled and postponed until this weekend. Unfortunately, another forecast for snow tonight and through the race tomorrow morning has led to another cancellation, and this time it will not be postponed. A Mid-Spring Classic is…
Unfortunately, the police have said that the shoulders in Cape Elizabeth will now be plowed back far enough for 800 runners by Sunday morning, so the race has been postponed until February 27th. You can get the full details on the Mid-Winter Classic website. If you can’t run, you can transfer your registration to another…
The 28th running of the Mid-Winter Classic in Cape Elizabeth was this morning in what were pretty ideal conditions for the area this time of year. Temperatures hovered around 20 degrees with wind speeds under 3 miles per hour. There were 686 finishers, just a few shy of last year’s record 691. Speaking of records,…
It didn’t really occur to me yesterday as I was running or in the short amount of time that I had to write about the race between the race cleanup and the Super Bowl, but yesterday’s 10 miler included 4 women who are competing in the Olympic Marathon Trials in April. That’s some pretty neat.
This morning could not have gone any better for the race directors at the Mid Winter Classic. The 10 mile race seemed to go off without a hitch, from volunteer support to record participation, and even including beautiful running weather. It was about 34 degrees out with an average 5 mile per hour wind, which…
This week last year, I talked a bit about proper locker room etiquette, sharing some mostly obvious rules about how to get along with your neighbor in the locker room. If the locker room isn’t your thing, Scott also discussed the basics of setting up a home gym. In racing news, Dirigo managed to sweep…
The Mid-Winter Classic 10 Mile Road Race is this Sunday, February 3rd at 9:45 a.m. This is an excellent early season run, and is the first race of the season for me every year. The race takes place in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Race day registration is available in the high school cafeteria, and you can…
This past weekend was the Cape Elizabeth Mid-Winter 10 Mile Classic, which I wrote about previously. As is usually the case when there is a race in Maine, the Maine Track Club has a collection of photos for your viewing pleasure courtesy of David Colby Young’s website. Here are the photographers who contributed pictures: David…
The Mid-Winter Classic was this morning in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. It was a chilly day with temperatures in the high teens/low twenties, but the wind was something fierce. Not much of a factor on the back of the course, the start and the finish were both very chilly and very hard to run through the…