Category: marathons
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You’ve likely seen this report about the women’s winner at Chickamauga this past weekend being DQd because her finish time was a virtual impossibility given her 13.1 split. Read here and let me know what you think. This was my third marathon in 2010, It is 2 loops around the Chickamauga Battlefield park, on a…
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Tenth marathon; hardest in a long while On November 3, I ran the Two Cities Marathon, in Fresno/Clovis, California. In short, this was the slowest race time I’ve had since 2009, when I ran The Rocket City Marathon in 5:33. While one might see this race as a regression in performance or ability given that I’ve…
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Read this: Sub Elite Runners Chase Improvement And then read this: In many ways marathoning is the modern version of Sisyphus and the stone. We try and try and train and train, and we hope that one day that stone stays at the top of the hill, but deep down, we know it won’t…perhaps…
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Today I had a 10 mile run on tap with 6 at tempo on a rolling hills section of my town. Last week I did very well on this run, with paces a little faster than the goal. I felt strong and solid on the run. The weather last week was overcast and 9 degrees…
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“A marathon is like life with its ups and downs, but once you’ve done it you feel that you can do anything.” –unknown “We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.” –Emil Zatopek I was surfing the…
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