Happy Thanksgiving, Bonkfighters! I hope all Turkey Trots were wonderful this morning.
Apparently: Shreveport, Houston, Sacramento, Springfield, MO and Detroit drew a record number of runners for their Trots; the Weather Channel Atlanta Marathon had a record number of runners; the Wilabram, Massachusetts Trot winner also ran the course when he was 11; a couple got [...]
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While in Pittsburgh, I got into a car crash. Luckily it wasn’t my doing, and the other driver was insured and apologetic. But, the fact remains that something is wrong with my neck, ny hip, the right side of my torso and lower back. Granted, it could have been far worse– far worse, as I [...]
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I’m in Pittsburgh to speak/read and since I’m in (as per usual) in full training mode for the St. Jude’s race in Memphis in a few weeks, I scouted out some running options. Luckily, a back-issue (May) of Runner’s World hooked me up.
Pittsburgh Routes:
3.75 mile run: Start at 11th and Smallman Streets and head east [...]
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Jeff Clark is a truck driver. As of this month, he’s been a truck driver for twenty years, as a matter of fact, averaging over 140,000 miles annually. He lives in Kewaunee, WI with his wife, Roxanne, in a log home on the Kewuanee River they built, and together they have a blended family of [...]
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It was one of those “Of course that has to exist!” sort of moments when I heard about AirportGyms. The site’s selection of US and Canadian gyms to help fight the bonk during a layover is pretty in-depth with a gym in or near just about every airport I checked. But, I wasn’t satisfied with [...]
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One of the larger expos I’ve attended, the Bank of America Chicago Marathon Expo was, in short, a whopper. Such a whopper, in fact, that it’s taken me a long while to get all the info processed and sorted. but for you, readers dear, twas a worthwhile endeavor. The usual shoe and apparel companies were [...]
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Without regard to the policies and merits of the candidate for whom you did or did not vote; this is a great story:
About an hour ago, I met a woman at the gym who is seventy-one and training for her first marathon. She was on the treadmill next to me, and we struck up a [...]
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You’d think this might go without saying, but I hear two issues arise again and again with runners in reference to water stops, so I thought we should just go here and get it all out in the open.
Issue One: Mannerless boors sweep in, crossing foot traffic, swiping an offered cup out from under someone [...]
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