Ernesto on November 9th, 2011

Moonrise 7 miler from the Inner Harbor and out through Fell’s Point in Baltimore.

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Ernesto on November 8th, 2011

Sunrise run around Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Crisp fall morning, absolutely gorgeous!

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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, [...]

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Twitter and Facebook were abuzz this week with a story on NYTimes.com “Non-alcoholic beer aids marathon recovery.” Cute story that followed up on the positive effects of polyphenols in workout recovery. Problem is, the lead paragraph was pretty misleading, indicating that the beer must be non-alcoholic to have the beneficial effect.

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The least obese state in the U.S. today would have ranked as the most obese 15 years ago, according to the new “F is For Fat 2011” report released by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The stats in the report are shocking, but not surprising if you spend much [...]

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Ernesto on May 28th, 2011

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Ernesto on April 22nd, 2011

Last year after finishing the Boston and Vermont City marathons with only a six week stretch between them, I decided to skip the  fall marathon, focus on speed and see if that focus could improve a 2011 marathon time. On April 16, I ran the the Gansett Marathon, my sixth overall, and my first and [...]

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Ernesto on March 7th, 2011

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Ernesto on February 26th, 2011

Just a glimpse from day in the life during winter marathon training. A Saturday 16-mile long run with Curt.

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Ernesto on February 19th, 2011

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 [...]

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