The second annual Wapack Trail Race is coming up this Saturday. For everyone’s sake, especially the runners, here’s hoping the weather is better this year than last. 

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I'm not sure why or how the Seven Sisters got its name. I had thought perhaps there were seven distinct peaks in the Mt. Holyoke Range. 

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When I run a race, I usually try to finish as quickly as possible. There is, however, another option.

 

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

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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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There's a special feeling that you get by running as hard as you can, for as long as you can, and then running several miles more.

 

 

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