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Half-Marathon Training That Will Improve Your Performance

BACK TO THE UNIVERSITY AT LAST The crowd of spectators thickened as we rolled over Chet’s Hill, named for race director Chet Sainsbury, who rerouted the course in 1998 over this hill and onto a new finish at the University of Cape Town. And then, finally, we entered Rondebosch, and the university came into view … Read more

There And Back

Adventures in South Africa’s Two Oceans Marathon. sat in the dark theater, gazing up at the image on the screen. It was of a man pumping his arms rhythmically as he ran over brown, unpaved earth. The man was Haile Gebrselassie, the great Ethiopian middle-distance runner, and the movie was Endurance, the film that chronicled … Read more

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 Island Marathon (vol. 6, issue 5), 825 points; Lake Tahoe Marathon (vol. 6, issue 4), 867 points; Lakefront Marathon (vol. 9, Issue 3); 898 points; Las … Read more

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. As Phil “Bagpipes” Lenahan and I pulled ourselves up the crumbling sides of the dirt slope, grabbing exposed roots and dragging our tired asses up … Read more

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 weight. Well, at least it maps to the relative vicinity of my weight. Take the 1998 Paris Marathon. According to the somewhat intermittent log I … Read more

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 my passions: American history and ultrarunning. My history passion centers on 19th-century American history. My running passion drives me to cover long distances in remote … Read more

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 some confusion. When Mutinda saw local resident Maciek Mierecsko sprint to the lead, he followed him, not knowing that Mierecsko was running the half-marathon, which … Read more

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, and/or simply the desire for a mental break. While no single workout will create significant performance gains, missing any single workout (or several for that matter) will … Read more

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 three-part half-marathon series, we reviewed (1) the numerous benefits of training for and racing a half-marathon, (2) how to set a realistic goal for your … Read more

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, like Boston? It would be to the runner’s advantage to do at least some of the longer tuns at the same time of day as … Read more

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 at the Steamtown Marathon in Scranton, Pennsylvania—but I’m itching to find another race to run in the next two or three weeks, preferably a 50K. … Read more

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