Every body's different, and no single way of doing things will work for everyone. That goes for running styles, I suspect, and it's definitely true for stretching.
A lot of runners drag their thighs over foam rollers (or other adapted objects) to massage and stretch their IT bands. I find it doesn't work well for me, because my other [...]

Just a reminder, folks… the lottery for the Mount Washington Road Race runs from March 1 through the 15.
I have no idea what the odds are, nor what it would be like to run uphill for that distance… it would be interesting to find out…
UPDATE 2/28 -I haven't decided whether to enter the lottery, myself. If [...]

We’d originally planned to follow the Webster Cliff over Mount Jackson and Webster, but around Eisenhower we began to consider bailing out at the Mizpah Springs cutoff. That became our solemn plan as the afternoon wore on, and we were greatly cheered by a sign indicating that we would reach Route 302 in just 2.6 [...]

I hadn't seen my friend Michelle in a long time, so it was great to get out and run together while the sun shone today.
We drove out to my old (circa 1991) neighborhood on the Wilton/Mason line, parked near Pratt Pond, and ran for an hour and a half (give or take a few minutes) [...]

Mount Washington was a bit of a letdown. The biggest mountain in New England, and people had to put a tourist trap on top. It must have been  spectacular before some busybodies went and built a hotel, cut a road and laid tracks up the side.

We didn’t reach the top of Washington until well after [...]

Speaking, as I was, of N. Nipmuck, here's the application, courtesy of race honcho James Campiformio: The race is out-and-back, 16 miles, and does NOT cover the same section of trail as Nipmuck Marathon, he writes.

So far as I can tell, the first trail race anywhere in New England this spring will take place on Saturday, March 24. The good news is it's right here in Nashua. The bad news (for me) is that it's a wee little 5K.  
UPDATE 3/20 - worse news… it's cancelled!
Anyhow, it's one of the Luv2Run races by [...]

We planned to hit every summit on the range, but by the time we topped Jefferson we realized that we were going slower than we’d expected.
We had hoped to be on top of Mount Washington around 10 a.m. or thereabouts, and we were at least an hour behind. As best I can recall, that’s [...]

I finally got around to posting pix of the gig at Tupelo. Steve's fans will want to catch the next show, March 25 at Nashua High South, even at risk of still more cowbell…

I’d always thought it would be cool be on the top of a mountain in time to see the sunrise. I was right.

The eastern sky was showing just the faintest hint of dawn when we reached the top of Madison, and the clouds (as you can see in the photo at the top of this [...]