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October 10th, 2008 — , Joan Benoit Samuelson, News from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
As part of their Second Tuesday Speakers Club, the Freeport Performing Arts Center will be hosting a presentation by Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first female Olympic Marathon gold medalist and the creator of the Beach to Beacon 10k. Joanie will discuss the experiences that she has had throughout her life and will take questions [...]
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September 30th, 2008 — , Atayne, Environment, Erik Boucher, Health Blog Posts, Joan Benoit Samuelson, marathons from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
About a year ago, I discussed the environmental impact of running and offered some suggestions about how you can lessen the damage that you personally cause by running. This year, I’d like to revisit the topic by focusing specifically on the impact caused by marathons.
The Problems
Photo by Don FulanoThe vast majority of marathons are [...]
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September 11th, 2008 — , Alberto Salazar, Deena Kastor, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Kara Goucher, New York City, News, marathons from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 meter runner Kara Goucher has announced that she is going to make her marathon debut at New York City this year, and that she has been planning on running it since she rode in the media vehicle during last year’s race.
“Last year when I watched the race first hand, I decided [...]
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August 2nd, 2008 — , Beach to Beacon, Dave McGillivray, Joan Benoit Samuelson, John L Parker Jr, Last Year, Running on the Sun, laps, swimming, taper from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
Topics this week last year were dominated by the Beach to Beacon.
I started the week off by offering 4 ways to determine the length of a pool in response to a reader question on the matter.
Maine Running Company hosted a talk by John L Parker, Jr. where he discussed his history as a runner and [...]
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August 2nd, 2008 — , 10k, Beach to Beacon, Ben True, Duncan Kibet, Ed Muge, Edith Masai, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Kristin Barry, Liudmila Biktasheva, Maregu Zewdie, Race Results, TJ Hesler, running from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
The 10th annual TD Banknorth Beach to Beacon 10k was this morning in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. As always, it was a closely contested race that is great for spectating. While the temperature was not very high during the race, it was quite humid. Unlike last year, the fog never burned off so [...]
Related StoresJuly 16th, 2008 — , 5k, Alex Bergo, Dave Manz, David Mann, Heather Henningson, Heather Pagano, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Matt Lane, Race Results, Scott Gorneau from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
It was a good night for a race. It was relatively warm, but nowhere near as humid as it has been. This led to the gravel path around the Back Cove being nice and dusty, leaving a fine layer of grit on everybody’s legs.
Matt Lane won the race in an easy [...]
May 13th, 2008 — , Emily LeVan, Jeanne Hackett, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Kristin Barry, Olympics, Sheri Piers, Sports, marathons from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
Jeanne Hackett interviewed Sheri Piers and Kristin Barry this evening at Peak Performance Multisport as part of her “A Running Conversation” lecture series.
The talk went for about 50 minutes, with a little better than half of that time devoted to Kristin and Sheri answering Jeanne’s questions and the rest of the time devoted [...]
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April 20th, 2008 — , Blake Russell, Deena Kastor, Emily LeVan, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Kristin Barry, Magdalena Lewy Boulet, Olympics, Race Results, Sheri Piers, marathons from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
Today was the women’s Olympic Marathon Trials.
Congratulations to all of the women that finished!
Magdalena Lewy Boulet led most of the race, building a 40 second lead within 4 miles and extending that to almost 2 minutes throughout the race. In the last lap and a half, though, Deena Kastor [...]
January 5th, 2008 — Hanson Brooks, Jeff Galloway, Joan Benoit Samuelson, McMillan Running Calculator, Nova, Run To Win Website, Runners World, marathons, pace, running, training from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
I would like to thank everybody that was able to make the conference call this afternoon, it was a lot of fun and it lasted for about 65 minutes. There were about a dozen people on the call in total. At one point there were 6 or 7 people dialed in through the [...]
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December 28th, 2007 — Deena Kastor, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Movies from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
The Spirit of the Marathon is a feature-length movie following 6 runners as they train for and run the Chicago Marathon in 2005. Deena Kastor takes center stage along with 1 other professional, 4 amateur athletes and a “Who’s Who of Marathoning” that make cameo appearances throughout the film (including Joan Benoit Samuelson.) [...]
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November 16th, 2007 — Joan Benoit Samuelson, Maine Running Company, NCAA, News, Olympics, Sports, aging, marathons, running from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
“If it wasn’t for all of you, I wouldn’t be running around in circles wondering what I’ll be when I grow up.” –Joan Benoit Samuelson, November 15, 2007
Joan Benoit Samuelson spoke last night for about an hour at the Maine Running Company. She was the first women’s Olympic Marathon gold medalist in 1984, has [...]
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November 13th, 2007 — Joan Benoit Samuelson, Maine Running Company, News from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
Joan Benoit Samuelson will be speaking at the Maine Running Company on Thursday evening, November 15th. She will be talking about race preparation, training up here in Maine, and will host a general Q & A session.
Joannie was the first women’s Olympic Marathon gold medalist in 1984, has won the Boston Marathon twice and [...]
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November 12th, 2007 — Joan Benoit Samuelson, John Bingham, John Rogers, STTB, fitness, information from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about great sources of information for the month of November.
Today, I would like to talk about the best sources of running advice. The trick to getting good running advice is to spend time where runners congregate. [...]
August 3rd, 2007 — Beach to Beacon, Dave McGillivray, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Sports from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
The Beach to Beacon road race is tomorrow morning, and today an interview was put up on the website between race director Dave McGillivray and Joan Benoit Samuelson. I believe that this interview may have originally appeared in New England Runner, but I could be wrong. It seems familiar. In the interview, [...]
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July 21st, 2007 — 5 miles, Clam Festival, Jeff Caron, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Kristin Barry, Pat Tarpy, Race Results, Sheri Piers, Sports, Yarmouth from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
The Pat’s Pizza 5 Mile Classic at the Yarmouth Clam Festival was this morning. Pat Tarpy came back to Maine to attempt to set the course record. Two years ago, he ran a course record 24:29 but was soundly beaten by Matt Lane, who ran an impressive 23:48. This year, having already [...]
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July 4th, 2007 — 1 mile, 10k, 4 miles, 5k, Anthony Balkier, Bridgton, Caity Tully, Carry Buterbaugh, Christine Snow Reaser, Donna Harriman, Emily LeVan, Erik Stanley, Ethan Hemphill, Gabe Rivard, Hilary Maxim, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Keenan Hendricks, Kelsey Smith, MDI, Mike Griffin, Mike Hersom, Race Results, Sheri Piers, Sports, Steven Dewitt, Thomaston, Winthrop, York from Blaine Moore @ Run to Win
Update: All of the results for races I knew about are now accounted for, as well as the results for a race I hadn’t previously been aware of. There were at least 4561 people who finished a road race on Wednesday.
It is the Fourth of July today, one of the more popular days for [...]