If you're going to go out and run for over an hour, you might want to carry a little extra fuel. 

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Short of running it yourself, the best way to gauge how tough a course will be is to check the results of past year's races.

 

 

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We've all heard that the Inuit have dozens of different words for snow. I have no idea whether that's true, but it sounds right.
So how come New Englanders have only one word for mud?

 

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The Gate City Striders have put together a 10-week series of 5K and 5 mile races in Mine Falls Park, starting June 11. 

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Cheers again to "Sherpa" John Lacroix, a NH seacoast area high school teacher who just completed his first 100-mile run last weekend!

 

 

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It's raining, it's pouring and up north it's snowing. 

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I am grateful to the sports guys for running bits from my blog on Sundays, but I was mortified to see that they'd included my finish time at the bottom of a list of the 15 top finishers from a recent race.

 

 

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The Merrimack River Trail Race is a fast course. I'd heard as much, and it's no lie. I wish I were as fast as that course.

 

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NASA has cleared astronaut Suni Williams for a 10 a.m. starting time Monday, as she runs a virtual Boston Marathon while lapping the planet on the International Space Station!

 

Bogie's MorFun Wapack Trail race got a professional PR boost, courtesy of the Wapack Wilderness Campaign. 

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I believe I may have mentioned, once or twice, that Mine Falls Park is one of my favorite local running spots.

 

 

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I started my work day this morning by taking my canoe out for a quick spin on Salmon Brook. 

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The Boston Marathon is coming up soon. It's kind of a big deal, I guess. 

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"Dironstarr" has posted pix from N. Nipmuck on the Cool Running forum. 

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You don't get stronger from running. You get stronger from resting, after you run. That's when the muscles heal up and grow. Or so I've heard. 

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