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A now-grizzled high school cross-country team looks back at the formative years. attorney Michael Bernick, who was looking back at long-distance running the decade before the running revolution struck. What caught our eye about the piece was its vivid recreation of the baby boomers engaging in high school cross-country while also going to the other … Read more
Evolving as a long-distance runner. *ve been running regularly for the past eight years, though I consider myself a lifelong runner. I started when I was 11, when my dad and I ran the Skunk Alley Run near Missoula, Montana. Iremember so well his encouragement as I ran, and back then, it was just fun. … Read more
The sweet season. irst, a confession: I am addicted to racing, and the time of year is irrelevant Fc me. Unless a race is canceled because of snow or some other unusual circumstance, if I am registered, I will go. My calendar is full year-round. That said, I have discovered that the autumn months of … Read more
A About 7,000 runners entered the New York City Marathon to run for nearly 300 charities, some large, many others small, but in their own way just as significant. wind that had been forecast had pounded against my hotel window all night. But it was the excitement of what was to come that had kept … Read more
(And what | learned from it.) one foot in front of the other. I also needed a black 50-gallon garbage bag to keep me going. The garbage bag was the best aid-station gift I had ever received and still holds its place as the most useful. Training to run 100 miles, or to just cover … Read more
A biased look by a runner who has done 111. i hat are your top 10 marathons to run in the United States?” That Wes a question asked of me recently on Facebook, one of nearly 400 questions asked over a one-day period, inspired by a contest featuring a giveaway book. There is almost no … Read more
And the special friendship that ensued. rather grim. After a particularly snowy winter there was still plenty of the white stuff around, making for challenging movement through the “mashed potatoes” for most of the first 30 miles. Added to this was the soaring temperature, which pushed up perilously close to the record of 80 degrees … Read more
You never know what might happen at a first-time triathlon event. hoisted myself out of the pool to check the workout board a little better, rested on my ribcage, slipped a bit, and came down hard on what I later found was my 10th rib. I still don’t know, about a month later, if I … Read more
© Brendan Polin had wound my way through trails and ended up on a tiny country road where I thought I could get back to my car quicker by taking the road around the mountain instead of trying to run up and over it. But I got lost and had to ask for directions at … Read more
If you’ve got to go, and we all ultimately do… t was a regular Wednesday night. It was another routine dinner after a regular day at work and a long, boring drive home. It was three days after the Rock ’n’ Roll Half-Marathon in Raleigh, North Carolina, where unfortunately two deaths occurred. It was three … Read more
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