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In Praise of the Grateful Dead for Trail Running Don’t say it. I know you’re thinking it. “What kind of hippie freak are you, Chris?” Grateful Dead, really? Hippie. Seriously, folks, ignore the tie-dye bandanna for now and let me make a case for why you should listen to, or at least revisit, the Grateful …
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Boston Utopia PR Newswire, Boston 10-18-2020 – The Boston Athletic Association is pleased to announce registration open for the Boston Marathon Running Festival Week. Since expanding the classic 26.2 mile event to a weeklong festival in 2017 registrant demand has been overwhelming and reaction in the global running & fitness community has been strongly positive. …
How to manage the crash at the end of a long race Speaking from lots of recent experience I have recently run 3 marathons 35 days, while injured. My challenge was not how to race. My challenge was how to survive. Especially challenging was how to survive the last 6-8 miles of these races. I …
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Creating new paths When I first moved into my house 15 years ago it was the last house on the cul de sac with woods on 3 sides. More houses were scheduled and planned. There were perk test holes in the woods quite near my house. There were bulldozer trails where the surveyors had been. …
Mastering the 24 hour Relay Race You’ve been recruited to be part of a 24-hour relay race. Now what do you do? How do you train for something like that? What can you expect? What can you prepare for? There are many popular ‘overnight’ relay races and relay series now. The basic layout for these …
