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What to expect at Boston on a “hot year”. Seeing the weather forecast I figured you could use my experience here. Of the 14 Boston Marathons I have run, one, 2004, was a ‘hot year’. Here’s what I learned. The first wave now goes off at 10:00AM so the faster runners will get into the …
Cross-training with Les Habitantes Introduction: I’ve spent way too much time inQuebec Cityover the last decade. I got around to thinking about how for all the time I’d spent there and all the runs, I’d never written down the particulars. I had forgotten how beautiful a city it is by spending too much time working …
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Pocatello Marathon 8/31/2013 – Marathon of the month #5 “Let me be worthy…” I said in a soft, broken and choked voice. We are a huddle of a few hundred runners in the pre-dawn, moonless still of the high Idaho desert. Our huddle is thrown in stark white light relief by the portable spotlight array …
Easy Runs – Garbage miles? Part of any good training plan is your base – the easy runs. The majority of the running you will do in a plan is often just recovery and easy runs. Is there a science to easy runs? Is there a right way or wrong way to run these easy …
Beep Beep! The timer goes off… When I jog-walked the Chicago Marathon this year at the way back of the pack with Zen Runner and Eddie Marathon one of the interesting things was the cacophony of beeping going back there. It was like being in a microwave oven convention. The vast majority of participants in …
