Anatomy Of Adnf
Vol. 9, No. 1 (2005)
Anatomy Of Adnf
[…] week—and was forced to back off more than intended during my taper. But the shin splints intensified. In the two weeks leading up to Boston, I ran all of…
Boom Of Her Own
Boom Of Her Own
WHAT? MORE SCENERY? Sylvan Lake is at the trailhead for Harney Peak, highest point between the Rockies and the Appalachians. The Needles Highway is very scenic but can be quite…
Coping With the Inevitable
Coping With the Inevitable
gets you there.” She took her own advice and told us to go on ahead at one point, but I noticed later that she finished more than a half hour…
Did Not Finish
Did Not Finish
They either started early, thereby screwing up the race’s scoring, or they entered races they knew they could not finish within the allotted time and stayed out on the course…
Editorial: January/February 2005
Editorial: January/February 2005
Walk Before You Run At one time in the prehistory of today’s running, which translates to the 1980s or thereabouts, it was thought of as a mark of shame for…
Even A Midpacker Can Take On The Extreme
Even A Midpacker Can Take On The Extreme
States is nearly identical in steepness (978 feet per mile) to the two climbs at Baldy Peaks but is a mere 1.6 miles long. Granted, you have to cover 100…
From Cowsto Cow Pies
From Cowsto Cow Pies
mile for any distance is pushing the anaerobic threshold. At this point, I’m not even thinking of quality. I figure I’m like an old car: the shocks and suspension will…
Fun And Folly In the Yukon
Fun And Folly In the Yukon
[…] losing a loved one, caring for aging parents, and taking important academic exams are all associated with suppressed immune function. People undergoing psychological stres…
My Most Unforgettable Marathon: January/February 2005
My Most Unforgettable Marathon: January/February 2005
@ Linda Martin with her husband, Tim, and their daughter, Emily, at the finish of the Trinidad to Clam Beach Run. ning the Tour de France. Just ask Lance Armstrong….
Redemption
Redemption
After Last Year’s DNF, a Return to God’s Country Has Uplifting Results. n 2003, I dropped out of God’s Country Marathon at 16 miles. My failure to finish was painful,…
The Infection Connection
The Infection Connection
Marcus Dammayer though not without a struggle. The race culminated my most successful summer of running, as I set personal bests in every distance from five kilometers to the ha…
They Practice On Mountains
They Practice On Mountains
An English racer, Andrew, stands talking to someone ahead of me. He congratulates me, so I ask where the finish is. “It’s here,” he replies. I look to my left…
Thirty Phone Booths to Boston, Part 1
Thirty Phone Booths to Boston, Part 1
[…] seemed important. Caring for each other, seeing commonalities instead of differences—these were the lessons of those months after September 11. Returning to Durham was l…
When Running Becomes Healing
When Running Becomes Healing
“No,” I replied. “That’s not important.” “Tt is to a woman,” she said. Yes, she has lost her eyelashes, too. But not once has she lost her spirit. “My kids…
Marathon Age-Group Awards
Marathon Age-Group Awards
What It Takes to Make the Grade. id you ever wonder how fast you would have to run to be one of those select few who bring home a trophy…
My Most Unforgettable Marathon: March/April 2005
My Most Unforgettable Marathon: March/April 2005
[…] in the form of her long runs. Her long runs were in the 15- to 18-mile range leading up to her marathons. Frank Shorter, the 1972 Olympic marathon champion,…
Outrunning The Sound Of The Doodlebug
Outrunning The Sound Of The Doodlebug
TABLE TWELVE Ages 65-69: Male and Female Average Times for Places 1-3 TABLE THIRTEEN Ages 70-74: Male and Female Average Times for Places 1-3 TABLE FOURTEEN Ages 75-79: Male and…
Run to Salvation
Run to Salvation
weekend of March 14-15, 1981, when Patti won the River Run 15K in an AR 49:33 in Jacksonville, Florida, and then a WR victory the very next day in Boston…
Running to Live
Running to Live
An Injury Can Be a Near-Mortal Blow to a Life Lived To Run. ne of the best T-shirts that I’ve ever seen had “I Run To Live” on the front…
The Family That Runs Together…
The Family That Runs Together…
Peter Bakwin “How do you know when to quit?’ I saw Buzz [Burrell, a Boulder ultrarunner and friend of the family] crying by the side of the road.” Stephanie herself…
The Long Roadto Napa
The Long Roadto Napa
[…] maintained my weight since college, and since I’m pushing 40, I’m thrilled that Ican still wear jeans from 20 years ago. Running gives me control over my life. I…
Thirty Phone Booths to Boston, Part 2
Thirty Phone Booths to Boston, Part 2
Marathon (vol. 6, issue 6), 937 points; Boulder Backroads Marathon (vol. 7, issue 4), 886 points; Calgary Marathon (vol.3, issue 2),876 points; Cape Cod Marathon (vol. 7, issue …
Tiimeto Run Long
Tiimeto Run Long
Printer: Insert Reebok Dealer ad Printer: Insert Adirondack Marathon ad Time to Run Long onrunners stare incredulously and demand of regular runners, “How do you find the time…
Benefits of Marathoning
Vol. 9, No. 3 (2005)
Benefits of Marathoning
BY DR. BE a CARSON Preliminary research is complete and the results are in—completing a marathon is great for you in many ways. The physical benefits of training for and…
Don’T Exercise—Train!
Don’T Exercise—Train!
WOMEN Silvia Ruegger Jacqueline Gareau Odette Lapierre Carole Rouillard Lizanne Bussiéres Ellen Rochefort Danuta Bartoszek May Allison Anne Marie Malone Macrow Linda Staudt 4 S…
Don’t Exercise—Train!
Don’t Exercise—Train!
I n chapter 16 of my book Run Tall, Run Easy, the Ultimate Guide to Better Running Mechanics, I discuss the concept of sequential, progressive development of the runner through…
Duel at Deadwood
Duel at Deadwood
FROM GHOST TOWN TO THE NATIONAL HISTORIC REGISTER Not much more than 20 years ago, Deadwood, named for the burned trees that the miners found in the area when they…
Give It That Good Old College Try
Give It That Good Old College Try
PART 1 OF 2 It was Thursday afternoon, much like many other Thursday afternoons over the past few months. I had been meeting with a group of students at Purdue…
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
BY PAUL CLERICI When you think of your best and worst marathons, do you base the answer solely on your finish time? Your place? How you felt afterward? Do you…
Lessons From a 100-Mile Virgin
Lessons From a 100-Mile Virgin
I am probably like most people who wind up running a 100-miler: the thought of doing the distance had been eating at me for some time. It was as if…
My Most Unforgettable Marathon (And What I Learned From It)
My Most Unforgettable Marathon (And What I Learned From It)
CHICAGO, October 24, 1999—The marathon holding the most exciting memories for me was Chicago in 1999. To put the year in perspective, I had just finished medical school in San…
On the Hardrock Board
On the Hardrock Board
I first attempted the Hardrock 100-Mile Endurance Run in 1998. I was miserably underprepared, naive, and weak. I dropped out, embarrassed, with my tail between my legs, at the 3…
One for All, and All for One
One for All, and All for One
May/June 2005 On the Road 13 Volume 9, Number 3 With Joe Henderson Travel with Joe as he shares his view from inside the world ST A F F of…
The History Of The Marathon In Canada
The History Of The Marathon In Canada
Eat as much food as you can at aid stations. Salt pills are also a great idea. I took two pills every 10 miles. I’m not sure whether they helped,…
The History of the Marathon in Canada
The History of the Marathon in Canada
“Where is it now, the glory and the dream?” (From Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth, 1770-1850) Y ou could call the…
When You Can’t Run
When You Can’t Run
It happens. Most of the time it happens because you have been assailed by an injury, maybe serious and lasting, or maybe just one that needs a few weeks to…
You Want to Put On a Marathon—Where?
You Want to Put On a Marathon—Where?
Max Skorodinsky didn’t stop running after one class. She returned the next term, entering a 5K race and then a 10K. A year after her shaky start, Max decided without…
You Want to Put On a Marathon—Where?
You Want to Put On a Marathon—Where?
I wasn’t sure how to write this. I am by no means a writer. My creative skills have been limited to pretending that I am a carpenter some months and…
Give Itthat Good Old Collegetry
Vol. 9, No. 4 (2005)
Give Itthat Good Old Collegetry
Green, H.J., M. Ball-Burnett, S. Symon, S. Grant, and G. Jamieson. 1995. Short-term training, muscle glycogen, and cycle endurance. Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology 20(3):…
Mission Impossible
Mission Impossible
Doug Stanny <4 Tim Bomba taking a break from work in his sound studio. Bomba was once an unhappy runner, then he became a swimmer, and now he is a…
My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon (Vol. 9, No. 4)
My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon (Vol. 9, No. 4)
class member a humorous award to commemorate something about what that particular runner did during the semester. We told our war stories about our struggles and our victories. …
Running On Mars: Outer Space Or Spaced Out?
Running On Mars: Outer Space Or Spaced Out?
Sometimes the War of the Worlds Begins and Ends on a Lonely Trail on Earth. ars Rover One, come in, this is Mission Control. We have a problem, over.” “Mission…
See You On the Mountaintop
See You On the Mountaintop
Second, she brought people out of the woodwork. Mostly they were good people, concerned not to be annoying, resolved to assist if something went wrong, and eager to share in…
Show Methe Bagels
Show Methe Bagels
Show Me the Bagels Glycogen As a Metabolic Fuel for Runners. he many proponents of diets like Atkins and South Beach would have the public believe that carbohydrate is some…
Sleepless Intucson
Sleepless Intucson
Sleepless in Tucson Or the Multitasking of the Very-Long-Distance Runner. t 6:00 a.m. on March 25, a few miles north of Tucson, Arizona, the full moon slipped behind Picacho Pea…
Thirty Phone Booths to Boston, Part 3
Thirty Phone Booths to Boston, Part 3
SPECIAL BOOK BONUS Did the Introduction of Money Into an Amateur Sport Ruin It, or Were We Romanticizing the Starving, Penniless Runner? The first four installments of Don’s b…
What the Bleep Has Gotten Into Tim Bomba!?
What the Bleep Has Gotten Into Tim Bomba!?
It was the movie that did it, Bomba insists, alluding to the quirky little picture that juggles a hodgepodge of ideas such as quantum physics, spirituality, and mysticism. Wheth…
Change Of Heart
Vol. 9, No. 5 (2005)
Change Of Heart
A Change of Heart Sometimes Our Own Self-Absorption Cuts Us Off From What's Truly Important. have often wondered how other couples handle their relationship when both of them ru…
Editorial: Vol. 9, No. 5 (2005)
Editorial: Vol. 9, No. 5 (2005)
Real, Imagined …or Vitalized? The dream paid a visit again last night. It’s the second time in the past month. Why it’s suddenly recurring on a regular basis, I don’t…
Half-Marathon Training That Will Improve Your Performance
Half-Marathon Training That Will Improve Your Performance
Photo by lan Byington / SanJuanUpdate.com 4 The Hersh family at the San Juan Island Marathon awards ceremony after Craig’s first-place finish. the official later at the awards…
In Good Hands
In Good Hands
Broken-Field Running The 100th running of the Boston Marathon in 1996 was a special event for many runners but particularly so for Bob Sarocka of Lombard, Illinois, who complete…
My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon (Vol. 9, No. 5)
My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon (Vol. 9, No. 5)
A Father Jim with some children from the Christmas Sponsor a Family Program. stops and no finish line. Our marathons push us to run through our limits that we impose…
On The Road With Barry Lewis
On The Road With Barry Lewis
capacity, some people are assigned rooms at a hotel a pleasant 20-minute walk (or seven-minute jeep ride) away. While some were wary of being separated from the main group, the…
Running For A Higher Purpose
Running For A Higher Purpose
[…] marathon race performances; personal records; different cities visited and trained in; number of interval workouts; and number of runs exceeding an hour. You’ll enjoy re…
The Injuries Of August
The Injuries Of August
As Miles Pile Up, So Does the Chance of Injury. any of the runners who utilize the bulletin board I manage online under the identity InterActiveTraining have as their goal…
The Lifetime Running Profile
The Lifetime Running Profile
Warm-Ups: Warm up with an easy two to three miles followed by stretching and then 6 x 100-meter or 4 x 200-meter strides at your 3K goal pace for the…
The Marathon Thattriedto Kill Me
The Marathon Thattriedto Kill Me
© Barry Lewis A The winners—the top three runners in the 100-mile race and the Mt. Everest Marathon— flanked by Doctor Jain (front left) and Mr. Pandy (front right). The…
Thirty Phone Booths to Boston, Part 4
Thirty Phone Booths to Boston, Part 4
Marathon (vol.6, issue 6), 937 points; Boulder Backroads Marathon (vol. 7, issue 4), 886 points; Calgary Marathon (vol. 3, issue 2),876 points; Cape Cod Marathon (vol. 7, issue …
Triple Threat
Triple Threat
Running as a sport also rebounded from its low of the 1980s. By the ’90s, we had a second running boom, far bigger than the first but different. This reboom…
Blue-Sky Trophy
Vol. 9, No. 6 (2005)
Blue-Sky Trophy
A Blue-Sky Trophy We All Need a Hero We Can Emulate. Mine Was There My Whole Life. t has been just a few days since my last marathon—a great day…
Editorial: November/December 2005
Editorial: November/December 2005
Alone The loneliness of the long-distance runner. For a generation of runners, the title of Alan Sillitoe’s novel of juvenile rebellion described and defined the person, usual…
From Mothballs To Marathon
From Mothballs To Marathon
than last year’s winning time. For more than half of the race, though, through about 21 miles, another Kenyan, Titus Mutinda, was in the lead, in large part because of…
Half-Marathon Training That Will Improve Your Performance
Half-Marathon Training That Will Improve Your Performance
Seasonal Half-Marathon Training That Will Improve Your Marathon Performance Part 2: Sometimes the Best Way to Run Long Better Is to Improve Your Short Game. In part I of this…
Letter From The Middle Of The Pack
Letter From The Middle Of The Pack
Typically, it is suggested that up to four workouts over the course of each 13-week schedule may be skipped completely as necessary because of lifestyle stress, general fatigue,…
My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon: November/December 2005
My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon: November/December 2005
(And What | Learned From It) KIAH, CALIFORNIA, October 7, 1978—It occurred to me on B Hill (“B” for “Bastard”) that maybe I was overdoing it a bit this year….
Need To Lose 14 Pounds To Run A Three-Hour Marathon
Need To Lose 14 Pounds To Run A Three-Hour Marathon
(see “Your Mileage May Vary”), and much as Max Jones in Yorkshire predicted more than a decade ago, my performance maps almost exactly to the amount I’m over my ideal…
Running The Pony Express Trail
Running The Pony Express Trail
An Opportunity to Mix Western History With Ultrarunning Was Not to Be Missed. Part 1 of an Occasional Series. his is the story of an attempt to combine two of…
The Berlin Marathon
The Berlin Marathon
This is all well and good if the marathon you are going to run starts at 7:00 A.M. But what about marathons that don’t start until 11:00 or even noon,…
Thirty Phone Booths to Boston, Part 5
Thirty Phone Booths to Boston, Part 5
Redwoods Marathon (vol. 2, issue 3), 809 points; Idaho Great Potato Marathon (vol. 7, issue 2),771 points; Key Bank Vermont City Marathon (vol. 4, issue 2), 888 points; Kiawah I…
