This will be the last time I complain about hills for at least 6 months, I promise. After racing a very hilly 10 miler and a very hilly 15K in the past month, I was hoping a moderately hilly 5 miler would feel easy. It did not. Sunday was the Red’s Shoe Barn Race for …
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It’s gotta be the shoes
Another race another day running up and down hills. In western New York hills are rare, and races with lots of hills were even rarer. But out here flat races are hard to find, especially flat races longer than 5k. Fresh off the Ed Erichson 10 Miler where I was battling for the win, I …
Good Race, Bad Result
Last weekend was my second race of the year, the Boston Prep 5 Miler. This is an add on race for the Boston Prep 16 Miler. Everyone starts at the same time, then about 1 mile in the 5 milers go left and the 16 milers go right. Just before the split I was in …
Running down the mountain
Hazel and I spent the first day of 2019 sprinting down Mammoth Road in Londonderry, NH. It was my 3rd time running the Millennium Mile, and Hazel’s first. It is a silly race, a point to point 1 mile race with 80 feet of drop. Thanks to unusually warm (50 degrees) weather, and a 20 …