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...

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....

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...

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...