Tough runs back to back
Yesterday morning, I ran the Bridgton Four Miler in 22:38. With a day and a half of rest, I ran a good quarter mile workout fartlek style at the Back Cover 5k Race Series this evening.
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Maine Fourth of July Race Recap (2006)
Here is a quick breakdown of races this Fourth of July. I’ll cover the Bridgton Four on the Fourth, the Freeport L.L. Bean 10k, the York Four on the Fourth, the Kennebunkport Goose Rocks Beach 5K, the Winthrop Friends on the Fourth 5k and the Sebec Village Fourth of July 5k.
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Fourth of July races
One of the great things about this country’s birthday is that there are races all over the place. There are 3 or 4 of them within a quick driving distance from my house, and this year we are doing a different one than usual. Before, we always ran a 10k near Portland. This other race…
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This Week Last Year: Race Results, Book Reviews, and Beach Runs
I’d like to start another regular feature highlighting what I wrote about during the week a year ago. A great way to get where you are going is to remember where you have been. Some of the highlights from this week last year: Friendly’s New England Mile: Race results from the first New England Mile…
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New England Mile (2006)
The Keybank New England Mile was this morning. A fast race through downtown Portland, the course drops 70 feet from start to finish. Prize money is awarded to the winners as well as the leaders at each quarter split. A sub 4 minute mile comes with a $5000 prize. Dereck Treadwell of Milford, Maine, thought…
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Back Cove 5k Race Series Week 6
The sixth back cove 5k was this evening. This 19 week series rewards the runners with the fastest 6 combined times throughout the entire series. Today was the first time that I actually raced the course, since the first one was the beginning of my taper for Vermont and I did have some recovery time…
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Sunday Runs
One of the things I miss most about college are the Sunday runs. Sunday was always my favorite day. During the week, we would tend to run four to seven miles at six in the morning, and then seven to twelve at four in the afternoon. On Saturday’s we would race. Sunday was when we…
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Running Teams and World War II
I was reading Vince Hemingson’s take over at Boston or Bust about running competitively with a group and how that is not really a good thing. This particular sin is that of judging your performance and measuring your progress and success against the people you run with. It is a fool’s game. It is a…
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Marathon tougher than giving birth…
Laura Lohr recently ran her first marathon, and she thought that running the marathon was tougher than giving birth. She first compares the process of training for and then running a marathon to having a child: When you cross the finish line after all the labor your body has prepared months for, it is an…
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Marathon recovery training tips
I was going through the recently restored Running Blog Family list of articles published over the last day or so, and found an article over at Boston Dreams and Michelin Stars that dealt with a similar topic as I did when I wrote about how marathon recovery is not instantaneous. Lance Martin wrote about how…