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This Week Lat Year: Racing & Biking & Doping

This week last year, I offered some advice on what to wear to a race to prevent “severing your leg at the thigh” from chafing.
I tried to decide if it was worth running in an ultramarathon a few weeks before my next marathon. Ultimately, I decided that yes, it was a good idea.
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Writing about your race results

There are thousands of runner’s who write about their training, their racing, and their sport. Some running websites have thousands of readers, others have hundreds, and the rest have only dozens. No matter how many readers a runner’s site has, though, they can still write passionate reports about the races that they have [...]

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Pisgah 50k Trail Race (2007) - Post-Race Review

The Pisgah 50k Mountain Trail Race was this past Sunday, September 9, 2007. I really enjoyed the experience and will provide a few details about the race now that I’ve had a few days to think about the whole thing. Yesterday, I talked about my experiences during the race. Today I’d like [...]

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Pisgah 50k/23k Trail Races - 2007 Race Results

 The Pisgah Mountain Trail Races were this past Sunday, September 9, 2007. The race results are finally available online and are copied below. I have also included some relevant links to information about the race.

Skip to 50k Results
Skip to 23k Results
Official Home Page for Pisgah 50k/23k
Pisgah 50k/23k Course Map
Pisgah 50k/23k Elevation Profile (pdf [...]

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Pisgah 50k Trail Race (2007) - Race Review

The Pisgah 50k Mountain Trail Race was this past Sunday, September 9, 2007. I really enjoyed the experience and will provide a few details about the race now that I’ve had a few days to think about the whole thing. The other day, I talked about what led up to the race and [...]

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Pisgah 50k Trail Race (2007) - Pre-Race Review

The Pisgah 50k Mountain Trail Race was this past Sunday, September 9, 2007. I really enjoyed the experience and will provide a few details about the race now that I’ve had a few days to think about the whole thing.
Discovering Pisgah
Finding anything out about the race is not particularly easy. It is a [...]

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Breaking the Marathon Barrier

Well, I ventured beyond the marathon today. I was 5th place at the Pisgah 50k Mountain Trail Race in 4:27 and change. My watch had 4:22:38, but I stopped it while I was jawing with the aid station workers and refilling my water bottle a few times. The winner was about a half hour [...]

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Vermont 100 Mile Trail Race (2007)

Photo by Ian ParvinThe Vermont 100 Mile Trail Race was this past weekend on July 24th. The top three Maine finishers all belong run with the Trail Monsters, a running group in the greater Portland area that runs local trails every week and race in the local mountain series.
Stephen Wells was the first Maine [...]

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Should I run an ultramarathon before the Marine Corps Marathon?

I have decided that I want to run two marathons this Autumn, and I am already committed to running the Marine Corps Marathon. I found out about a new marathon in New Hampshire, the Manchester Marathon. This would be an ideal race to run, because we have friends in Manchester that we could [...]

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