If you are interested in a fun but challenging trail race, then the 2nd of 3 races out at Bradbury Mountain State Park is this weekend on Sunday, August 10th. There are still spots open in the race if you are interested in a unique experience. From the registration form:
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Last night, I asked whether or not you would give your medical information to a race before running it, since that is what is being requested by the organizers of the Beach to Beacon this year. The founder of the company that is partnering with the Beach to Beacon to collect that information, Margie [...]

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The Beach to Beacon is trying something that I haven’t seen a lot of to date. They are trying to collect relevant medical data on as many of their runners as they can so that if there is an emergency it will be available to the first responders who are on site.
I am relatively [...]

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I’ve recently picked up golfing, a sport that my dad is an avid fan of. I remember, many years ago, watching him practice for hours each night. He’d stand on the back deck and hit balls into a practice net over and over and over again. Never, in the years I’ve watched him do this, [...]

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I’ve recently picked up golfing, a sport that my dad is an avid fan of. I remember, many years ago, watching him practice for hours each night. He’d stand on the back deck and hit balls into a practice net over and over and over again. Never, in the years I’ve watched him do this, [...]

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American athletes have been subject to drug testing when competing in international competition for years, but have not been subject to it domestically on any but the smallest scale. That is about to change in the coming years for the Intermediate (15-16 years old) and Young Men/Woman (17-18) divisions.
Starting in 2008, all [...]

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Earlier this afternoon, I received an email from Jeff Caron and asked him if I could share it with you. It touches not just what it means to be a Mainer but what it means to be a runner no matter where you are from, and I hope that you get as much out [...]

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Just a quick note that if you entered the lottery for the 2008 New York City Marathon, the results are available. Just do a search for your name in their entrant database:
http://webapps.ingnycmarathon.org/entrantsearch/
Good luck for anybody that tried to get in through the lottery!

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Anybody in New England that is still looking for something to do on Memorial Day weekend should look towards making a trip to New Gloucester, Maine, to participate in the Pineland Farms Trail Challenge.
There are 4 races along with volunteering opportunities. The 25k and 50k are returning for their 3rd incarnation, and [...]

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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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Sheri Piers and Kristin Barry both ran very well at the Olympic Marathon Trials back a few weeks ago in Boston. They will be offering a retrospective tomorrow evening (Tuesday, May 13th, 2008) at Peak Performance Multisport on Marginal Way in Portland, Maine.
The event is free and open to the public, and [...]

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In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about some things that you might be able to do locally throughout the month of April. This week I will wrap things up by sharing some ways to find local races, especially inaugural races.
What is an inaugural race?
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I have uploaded my photos from the women’s Olympic Marathon Trials. I have not had time to title or tag them all yet, but they are in chronological order if you’d like to browse through them.

You can view the entire set by going to:
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Ryan Hall’s Splits
10K, 29:11
20K, 58:58
1/2, 1:02:13
30K, 1:28:38
40K, 1:59:23
finish, 2:06:17
This morning was the London Marathon, and coming through in an impressive 5th place was Ryan Hall with a time of 2:06:17. He came across the line over 2 minutes faster than he ran last year in the race.
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In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about some things that you might be able to do locally throughout the month of April.

This week, Scott gets things started by discussing the Red Bull Flugtug. Basically, a bunch of crazy people put together contraptions that are [...]

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The Maine Running Company is holding a “fund” run for Emily and Maddie LeVan Thursday, April 3rd, at 6:00. There will be a discussion about training for the Olympic Trials that will include Emily LeVan, Sheri Piers, and Kristen Barry. The Two Trials fund raiser has raised over $41,000 of the $52,400 goal [...]

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The L.L. Bean 4th of July 10k is worth registering early for this year. The race is always competitive, is usually quite warm, and is a good way to spend the morning on our Nation’s birthday.
Plus, you might get free shoes. The first 400 runners to pre-register before May 15th at noon get [...]

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The 2008 Beach to Beacon will be on August 2nd, 2008. In an effort to help protect the environment while reducing costs and administrative overhead, registration is now paperless and will be handled online only. That means that you won’t be able to avoid the extra 10+% fee that gets tacked on, but [...]

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The interview this evening with Emily LeVan went really well. It involved a good mix of my own questions with the ones that were sent in to be asked. The replay of the call is live at Marathoning.org.
On the call, our conversation ranged from talking about Maddie’s condition, childhood cancer, and how this [...]

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Now is the last chance that you will have to get your questions answered in the interview with Emily LeVan on Wednesday night! If you have a question, you can ask it here:
http://www.marathoning.org/ask/Emily-LeVan.html
If you just want to dial in and listen to the interview or ask your questions in person, or if you’d like [...]

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Imagine yourself in a 600 meter dash, you are coming up to the second to last turn with 200 meters to go, you get cut off, and you fall on the track. Hard. What would you do?
If you are Heather Dorniden, you get mad, you get up, and you find another gear. [...]

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The 2008 running of the Irish Road Rover 5k in Portland, Maine will feature a team competition for the first time. The race is this Sunday, March 9th, at 11:00 in front of the the Brian Ború pub.
The race also has a new website this year with more information: irishroadrover.com.
Pre-Race packet pickup will be [...]

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If you had an opportunity to ask an elite athlete any question, what would it be? Would you ask about training? About racing? About diet? How about asking how difficult it is for your 4 year old child to be diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)?
On Wednesday, March 12th at 7:00 [...]

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The Trail Monsters are putting on a “Fat Ass” 50k at Bradbury Mountain on Sunday, March 2nd at 7:00. Anybody in the Southern Maine area that is interested in a fun run should think about coming out for it. The vast majority of the run will be outside of the park (click here for [...]

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Tomorrow night, Professor Bill Gayton, PhD. will talk about how your goals directly impact your athletic performance at Peak Performance Multisport. He is a sports psychologist from the Psychology Department at the University of Southern Maine.
He will identify the obstacles that are most likely to derail your exercise program and will explain how to [...]

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In a 2 to 1 decision, USADA has handed Justin Gatlin a 4 year ban effective as of May 25, 2006 and invalidating any races that he competed in following April 22, 2006. The lone dissenter on the panel was Christopher Campbell.
“Increasing Mr. Gatlin’s sanction for his first violation because of his disability is [...]

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Triple Gold Medalist at the Osaka championships this year, Tyson Gay has been elected the 2007 Athlete of the Year by the IAAF.
“I had been so scared. Scared of losing. I had ran very well at the US championships, but this was another dimension. I did not want to disappoint. I had watched Powell progress [...]

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This past Summer, Oscar Pistorius finally convinced the IAAF to test his prosthetics to determine whether he did in fact have an advantage over able-bodied athletes or not.
The tests have been conducted, the results are in, and the prognosis: Pistorius does in fact have an advantage and will now banned from international competition. The [...]

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The humor group “Improv Everywhere” creates humorous situations in and around New York City. Some of their stunts have included an annual “No Pants” subway ride, synchronized swimming in Central Park, and a lost fan in Yankee’s Stadium named Rob. Rob went to get some food, but got lost on his way out [...]

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Runner’s World has published an interview today with Dirigo runner Sheri Piers, who recently qualified for the 2008 Olympic Trials with a time of 2:45:36. The interview touches on her running history, her long break from competitive running, and how she trains while working as a nurse practitioner and running a household with 5 [...]

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The USATF Club Cross Country Championships were this morning. Peter Magill of team Fluffy Bunny won the masters’ 10k in 34:20.2, leading his team to first place with 59 points and a total time of 2:58:04.7.
Dirigo had a strong showing to improve 3 places and capture 2nd place this year, trailing by 12 points [...]

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The USATF National Club Cross Country Championships are this Saturday morning (December 8th) in Voice of America Park in West Chester, Ohio. Then men will be racing 10 kilometers, and the women will be racing 6 kilometers. Good luck to the Dirigo runners who are making their way out there for the masters’ [...]

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The lottery for the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run was this afternoon, and there were 3 Mainers attempting to get in through the lottery.
Jamie Anderson made it through the lottery after having been chosen within the first 20 picks. James Demer and Stephen Wells were not one of the 191 lottery [...]

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Dirigo RC had a good showing this weekend with strong performances in the Philadelphia Marathon and the New England Cross Country Championships.
Sheri Piers and Kristin Barry both ran very strong marathons in Philadelphia, starting and finishing together in 2:45:36! They were 59th and 60th overall, placing 8th and 9th for the women’s race. [...]

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The Hannaford Turkey Trot 5k was this morning in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. It was a beautiful day to run, and I wish that I had been. I got to help the kids get through their fun run at 8:30, though, and then got to take chips off of people’s ankles behind the finish [...]

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“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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The following race recap was written by Sara Holtsman, who runs in the St. Louis, Missouri area. She fits in time as a lawyer between her workouts. This past weekend, she had the pleasure of introducing a new athlete into the sport of running and wheelchair racing. You can read more about [...]

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I got down to the Patriot’s Day 5 Miler today, which is Veteran’s Day.
I’m glad that I got there early; they put me on parking duty and I got to warn people to park higher and higher up the Eastern Prom as the parking lots filled up. Between the race and a [...]

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Last weekend, Ryan Shay died during the men’s Olympic Marathon Trials in New York City. He was a hard working young man that everybody liked. He came from a close knit community that has been trying to figure out how they are going to deal with his passing.
Over the past few [...]

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This past Patriot’s Day, I was running the Boston Marathon in the wake of a Nor’Easter. Up here in Portland, though, the Nor’Easter was in full effect, which caused the cancellation of the Patriot’s Day 5 Miler by the Boy’s and Girl’s Club of Greater Portland. It was not safe to hold the [...]

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Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya and Gete Wami of Ethiopia were the recipients of the first $1 million payout from the World Marathon Majors this week. The majors will pay out every year going forward on a 2 year rolling cycle. Both runners received $500,000 checks.
For the inaugural 2 year cycle, there were 11 [...]

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The following race recap was written by Ryan Pancoast, who traveled to New York City to watch the trials this morning. Ryan is an illustrator who maintains a studio in Stanford, Connecticut. Last weekend, Ryan set an almost 20 minute PR in his second marathon. For more information about Ryan, to see [...]

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Ryan Hall broke the men’s marathon olympic trials record by over a minute in his dominating win over the rest of the field this morning. He ran 2:09:02, beating Dathan Ritzenhein by 2 minutes and 5 seconds. Brian Sell was another half minute back, securing a position on the Olympic team with a [...]

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Casey MoultonPhoto #58 by Don PentaTomorrow morning, the men’s Olympic Marathon Trials will begin at 7:35 EDT. 179 men have run qualifying times to compete in the event, and only 3 of them will be able to continue on to the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
The race will be more interesting than [...]

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I felt pretty strong in the last few hundred yards. I waved for the crowd, got them pumped up when my name was announced over the intercom, and hammed it up as I sprinted in. And by sprinting in, I mean picking up the pace a little bit over what I had been running. It [...]

Continue reading → My Marine Corps Marathon Experience - Post Race

I was about 4 people away from the starting line when the gun went off.
It took all of about 1 second for me to cross over the line. My goal was to run between 2:40:00 and 2:45:00, and I was hoping to be at 2:45:00 pace halfway through and then run negative [...]

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I am not a big fan of traveling, and getting down to Virginia this past weekend has not made me a fan of it. The only flight that was on time was the one that left Portland for JFK. I’ll leave it at that.
When we arrived in DC, it was raining pretty hard. [...]

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