20 seconds. In the end, it came down to that little. Less than two seconds a man for the 12 men, all over 40 years old, who ran on Captain John’s New Hampshire Athletic Alliance super master’s division team Sept. 16 and 17 at Reach the Beach. We ran from Cannon Mountain to Hampton Beach, [...]
Continue reading about Reach the Beach Fall 2011: NH Athletic Alliance Men’s Supermasters Team
Tough race for our team at Applefest. Curt blazed at sub 6s for the first 4 miles, then tore his plantar fascia and limped in the last 2.5. Sheer guts. We still ended up running the third fastest men’s master’s relay time, fifth fastest overall. I avg’d 6:39s over my climbing 6.7 miles. (The race [...]
Just a glimpse from day in the life during winter marathon training. A Saturday 16-mile long run with Curt.
You usually have to give up some sleep/rest time to work marathon training runs in when traveling for business. On the other hand, today’s frigid February New England winds remind of the upside of those on-the-road runs… nice warm 65F mornings on paths like this one along the harbor in San Diego a few weeks [...]
The April 2011 Boston Marathon sold out last fall in about 8 hours, leaving may fast runners out of the race. (This compared with 10-weeks-to-sell-out period in 2010, the year I ran it.) In response, organizers have rolled out a plan to tighten the qualifying times and change to a rolling registration process based on [...]
Continue reading about New Boston Marathon Qualifying Standards Rolled Out
Came across a tidbit in the most recent Men’s Journal (March 2011) that cited a University Hospital of Ulm, Germany, study, saying, “while endurance runners can suffer plenty of bone fractures and joint problems that need rest to heal, they’re able to run through most muscle pain, especially in the upper and lower legs, without [...]
Continue reading about Running through the pain not always a bad choice
My season of skipping a marathon in favor of trackwork and short races ended with many fall race goals met (and expectations exceeded), others abandoned in the face of injury, and finally, even the injury providing an awesome opportunity, the motivation to drop out of my last planned race and pace our 8-year-old in his [...]
The animator, James Jarvis, is also a smoking fast runner with PRs of 32:20 for 10K and 2:35:34 for the marathon! Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.
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