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Foot Prints Written in the snow on Boxing Day. The snow fell in angelic puffs, perfect, slow-motion flakes, like Hollywood’s best dreams. It was like running inside a snow globe. A perfect dusting rested on the trees, on the roads and on the path. Running in the snow is cool. It’s peaceful, and calm and …
Training for a 50K or a 50 Miler for marathoners So you’re a bit bored with racing marathons? Want to step up and try a new distance? How do you go from 26.2 to 30 to 50? My disclaimer here is that I am not an ultrarunner per se. I have and do run ultra-distances. …
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5 great reasons NOT to run trails… Trail Series part one – warming up to trails. I love trail running – so much so that I can’t imagine anyone NOT loving trail running. But, as I was out running this week I was forced to consider that some people might not like trail running. I …
Interludes 1.2 – NYC Marathon (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/NYC.mp3] Link NYC.mp3 Act one – The Bridge Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – All in a Day Freezing and about half way across the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and the wind was blowing sideways at 20-30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. Physical shivers racked me …
Overlapping training plans How do you figure out how to stack dissimilar endurance events? I’m in an interesting situation where I am training for the Boston Marathon in April and the a 100-miler in July. This isn’t a unique situation. Most years I’m training for different events and many times they overlap. How do you …
