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Boston Through Allens

Boston Through a Lens Keeping the journey in focus. a perfect illustration of my body and mind after a second journey along the legendary route from Hopkinton to Boston. There was nothing that day at the historic 118th running of the Boston Marathon that was going to keep me or any of the other 32,000 … Read more

Less Than Four

The lucky one! younger than my years. If that’s what people tell me, I guess it must be true, or so I want to believe. But I know what I see in the mirror: thinning hair, lines, spots. It’s all proof that at 65 I’ve been around. Some will tell you there’s not much you … Read more

The Death Valley 300

The hottest place on Earth and the highest peak in the Lower 48 within the same California county. What connects them? Summer running. Part 1. Preface: Into the Valley of Death EATH VALLEY has always been fascinating. It was once under water, a wrinkle in the great inland sea. If someone with a lot of … Read more

My High-Altitude Marathon

Sometimes getting high can bring you low. ing marathon held in 2002 in the Western Rockies. It was a double-loop marathon course at 9,000 feet of altitude on trails at the YMCA Snow Mountain Ranch. The race was ominously called the “Snow Mountain Trail Challenge’”—which are four words you never want to see in a … Read more

The Path To 42K

[…] and two-time 10K All-American. She then made the jump to the 20K and half-marathon and eventually to the marathon. “Sometimes your body just tells you when it comes to what your strengths are in races or workouts,” she said. “When I wasn’t very good at changing pace or if I would go out too … Read more

Running Reykjavik

“They come from the land of the ice and snow, of the midnight sun where the hot springs flow:”* Marathon, and it was celebrated in style by a record number of 14,272 participants in all the day’s events with more than 1,600 runners from abroad. It’s no wonder this AIMS International Marathon keeps on growing. … Read more

Natural Fuels

The simple foods remain the best. of energy gels, sports drinks, and protein bars. They are both convenient and efficient, but could real food, free from all the added unpronounceable chemicals that are often packed into these processed products, be just as beneficial? \ s a marathon runner, you are likely to have experimented with … Read more

Under Two Hours—And Beyond

Is the sub-2:00 marathon possible? ing, determination, courage, persistence, stamina, and endurance, all traits the Greek messenger Pheidippides was required to possess for his clarion journey. For it was Pheidippides’s feat of running from Marathon to exhaustion and death in Athens, in order to announce nothing more than victory, that inspired the subsequent formal Olympic … Read more

Preserved

Every great runner needs a statue. he ancient Greeks showed their love and loyalty to their gods, heroes, and | ste by immortalizing them with statues. Their aim was to show men moving, striding, leaping, and running as the gods themselves might move. Alexander Eliot, a noted art critic and sportsman, stated that: “The sculptures … Read more

The Pacer

A story about delusions of coachhood. “TI do it if you promise to train and pace me,” she said. And before I realized what I was saying, and before I knew what I was committing myself to, I was committed. Funny how things work: you pretty much can change the dynamics of your hopes, your … Read more

Keep It Simple

On training Rob: “I like to keep things loose. I’m motivated by the challenges of training and racing to my greatest potential.” Rob describes himself as having a stubborn character. He says his wife, Christina, fully supports what he does. He says one important thing he learned after coming back in 2012 from injury is … Read more

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