The last few runs, including last night’s nine-miler, have been dark and cold, and it’s easy to feel the bite of snow in the air, though it has yet to fall. “Winter is coming,” as Eddard Stark might say, and if a reference to George RR Martin’s dark fantasy novels (now HBO TV series) seems […]
Happy Thanksgiving, all! Grateful for health, family and community! All of which were in evidence this morning. Kristen, David and I ran Millennium Running’s Fisher Cats Thanksgiving Day 5K starting at the Fisher Cats stadium and running down through the Millyard. It was a fast course and a perfect day to run, blue sky, windless and […]
The following video is by Tim VanOrden with some tips on teaching your body to burn fat while on the go. This is key to marathon running – while I hadn’t seem Tim’s video I’d read about this quite a bit, and I did some of what he describes below during my last two training cycles. […]
It’s been a while since I felt that pain – as though my shoelaces were biting into the top of my foot. Hurts a bit when you run, hurts worse afterward. If it’s not a stress fracture, it’s likely extensor tendonitis. That means the tendons along the top of your foot are inflamed. It happens […]
I may not have done the best parking job; the car’s between the lines but at a funny angle in the half-empty lot. Darn stoplights, crosstown Manchester traffic. I leap out and lock the door with the clicker, over my shoulder, as I run toward the trail at the top of the hill. I plunge […]
David finished the USATF New England Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships meet at Freestyle Farm in Amherst with a better than 1 minute improvement and PB on his 3K time, and even more importantly, big smiles with his friends! While David doesn’t move on to regionals, I’m looking forward to seeing how the Granite State […]