Sunday was the Holiday Hustle 5k in Newton, MA. The whole family went down to watch Lisa run it for the 3rd time, and to watch Hazel run her first 5k. Hazel has been talking about running a 5k for a few years now, and she worked up the nerve to give it a try …
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My Kingdom for a Flat Stretch of Road
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 …
Do the work
It is no secret that I’ve been unhappy with my race times since leaving Rochester. I’ve had a few theories/excuses, but looking at the graph above it should be no surprise that I ran all my best times between 2011 and 2015. Even if I never run a PR again, I can still put in …
In with the old
I spent a busy weekend running and moving websites around the internet. On Sunday morning I joined some of the guys from the Derry Track Club for a cold and wet 14 miles. That put me over 50 miles for the week for the first time since last June. I spent much of the rest …