Five for you:
1. Do you run trails and ultras because you are addicted to risk?
2. Running USA: State of the Sport, Pt 1
3. Runners World gives a FAQ for qualifying for Boston 2014
4. Do we have a finite number of heart beats?
5. Growth of women’s marathon participation
Have a great run today!
Five for you:
1. Boston finishers selling their medals for charity
2. Lessons learned from running all over the world
3. Two professors assert they can calculate running speed from footprints alone
4. “RunNow” coalition is launched in aftermath of Boston
5. I heard Sarah on UltraRunner podcast and have enjoyed her blog. Here;s a race recap from Lake Sonoma 50
Run now!
The five:
1. Methinks registration for Boston 2014 will not last long
2. Interview ith Boston 4th place finisher Jason Hartmann
3. Ooh. I like quizzes
4. In ITU triathlon, a Brownlee wins…again
5. What is an ITU race, you ask?
Run like the wind, today
Here’s the five:
1. Why do some people feel they run faster at night?
2. Busting the “big lungs” myth.
3. ITB Syndrome: Prevention with Stretching and Strengthening
4. Man gets a ticket for running backwards.
5. How Boston will affect other races.
Run today. Backwards, forwards, or sideways.
Here are five links to stories of the inherent goodness of your fellow humans.
1. Using social media to help.
2. People showing compassion and kindness.
3. A digital record of awesome kindness.
4. Four stories.
5. Doing whatever they could to help.
Bonus: Therapy Dogs come to Boston!
Run today for those who ran to help.
Here are 5 articles/blog entries about Boston that you should read, if you haven’t already done so.
1. The Promise of the Boston Marathon
2. Scott Dunlap’s recap of his excellent race, and what came after
3. The Boston Marathon and the Importance of Sport.
4. This has been well circulated, but so worth re-posting: Patton Oswalt.
5. The Boston Marathon: All my tears, All my love.
Martin Richard gives us the most eloquent words of all. “No more hurting people. Peace.”
Run like it matters. Because it does.
I have yet to run Boston. So this isn’t a marathon hat. But it represents the BAA and it reminds me of a dream. I wear it today for Boston
Wearing a race shirt and some of my favorite running shoes today. For Boston
5 sources of inspiration from yesterday’s tragedy:
1. When the bombs went off, we ran toward the screams, not from them.
2. Runners crossed the finish, and kept running to donate blood.
3. People like my friend Bill Fisher (working the finish line as a post-race medic) put their lives in danger to help.
4. The people we can’t live without, nor do we pay enough ran to help us.
5. 78 year old Bill Iffrig was knocked down by the blast 15 yards from the finish line. He got up and finished his race.
Run today for those who can run no more. Run to remember this day. Run to show our resilience. Run to celebrate the safety of friends and loved ones.
Got a comment from a reader of the blog asking if I was in Boston today and if I was ok. It is pretty well known my deep desire to BQ one day.
I was not in Boston, still trying to BQ. So all is well. And I’m touched by your concern.
More important, those of my friends who were in Boston today are all accounted or and safe. I am thankful for their safety and appreciate their friendship even more now.
I think about the first responders who ran to danger. I consider the runners who finished the race and ran to donate blood, or to help the fallen. I ponder the sort of person who would hurt their fellow human in this way. And I wonder how will we respond. Will we harden our hearts and let cynicism at “a world gone mad” destroy the hope and optimism that is at the heart of our true selves, deep in our souls? Will we shy away from large races in large cities? Or will we keep running, continuing our quest to run our BQ, or our PR, or to raise money for a well deserving charity? I believe that we will do the latter. It is in our spirit as endurance athletes. It is what drives us to improve ourselves. I believe that we will draw inspiration from the fallen, the rescuers, the nameless many who helped in a time of need. I believe we will run farther and stronger tomorrow. We will run out of gratitude for our well being, and to remember those who can run no more; to show the world that we are a resilient lot, we runners. It takes more than a bomb to stop us. It takes more than fear to halt our stride.
Let’s run, shall we?
5 for Boston Marathon Day!
1. How to track the race via various methods!
2. Some vintage pics of Boston Marathons past. And some more here.
3. Fun facts you may not know about Boston Marathon. More facts here!
4. If you watch these amazing men without crying and wanting to run a 100 miles, then check your pulse. You ain’t living.
5. You can’t follow the Boston Marathon without knowing who is John J. Kelley. Here is a link to his Boston times.
Run like you are on Bolyston Street today!!!
(Today is also the day in 1947 that Jackie Robinson broke major league baseball’s color barrier as the first African American player.)
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