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The Maine Marathon Where scatterbrains meet racing Sometimes I lose site of the calendar. Especially when I’m working hard and focused on something. I don’t lift my head up to look around and re-set. My brain works well with approximations. That’s why I get lost in the trails so often. I run by feel and …
What’s the impact of extra weight on your race times? Weight loss and running I was asked by our friend Paula to share my thoughts on the impact of weight loss on running. I think there is an obvious correlation between weight and speed. At the simplest level it’s purely Newtonian physics. It takes more …
Getting Faster I must come off as some sort of crank with the number of times I talk about speed work. Like I’m obsessed with speed. Like the only thing that is important, the only goal, the only reward is to get faster. I’m not. I think racing and speed are just one of the …
How do you start Running from a point of zero? This was a question I got from someone I work with last week. They were at that point in their lives where they were frustrated with their health and knew they wanted to start getting more fit. They wanted to start running. They used to …
Looking back at races I have run Last week I put an item on my to-do list to fish through my medals and try to figure out what and how many marathons I’ve run. It was an interesting act of impromptu archeology. People ask me how many marathons I’ve run and I tell them, “I …
