I don’t believe in ghosts, but I saw one once.

It was by the dawn’s earliest light one autumn morning on Willets Hill in Birmingham, Michigan, the small, suburban town where I grew up. I was 12, or thereabouts, and I had a paper route, delivering the Detroit Free Press.
The darkness didn’t bother me. I was [...]

I’d be remiss not to mention another race coming up this weekend, the Jack London Trail Race.
I’ve never run it, though I’ve certainly spent plenty of time on the course: it’s a 10K in Mine Falls Park!
Though it’s a road race, fleet-footed folks in this area should also consider the Telegraph’s 5K Santa Fund Run [...]

Though I won’t be running it myself (see post below), I can recommend the Stone Cat 50 and marathon to anyone who’s up for it.
 

Stone Cat proved to be one of the most fun trail races I did last year (Disclosure: I only did three last year, and they were all a lot of fun).
This year’s [...]

In case anyone missed it, the profile of trail runner extraordinaire Rich Busa ran today (Saturday). Here ’tis: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071027/NEWS01/310270090/-1/news
UPDATE:
Two minor corrections: We can all wish Rich a happy 78th birthday Oct. 30, but he was still 77 when the article was published on Oct. 27. Also, he is no longer the oldest guy to finish [...]

I’ve recently been told that I should never run again. Naturally, I’d like a second opinion.

For now I’m playing it safe. I haven’t run a step for about a month. I miss it terribly, but I’m attached to my hip joint and I’d just as soon keep it.
I liked the hip specialist, Dr. James [...]

Another cool race coming up soon is the Busa Bushwack Nov. 4 at Callahan State Forest in Framingham, Mass. What’s so cool about it?
Well, for one thing, it’s free (though donations are accepted). For another, it’s less than an hour’s drive from the Nashua area. But most of all, it honors a truly amazing guy, [...]

I knew it wasn’t a rattlesnake that I’d found basking on the Nashua River Rail Trail last evening. It couldn’t be.
Timber rattlers are extremely rare in New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts (they are plentiful in parts of the Berkshires, however). Besides, the little guy I spotted, soaking up the last of the macadam’s warmth, didn’t look like [...]

Did you know that the New Hampshire Department of Transportation produces maps showing recommended bicycle routes all around the state?
Of course you did. They’ve been available online for quite a while, right here. A new batch of maps is in the works, however, and you can get a sneak peak at them, or share your [...]

Team Fullbag’s Julie Boulanger is back from competing in the world championship slalom races, and has posted a bunch of photos from both those races and the recent Old Gold Jug race in Antrim. Check ‘em out.
There’s a couple of me, and also one of Antrim local Josh Howard, who gets props for riding his first slalom [...]

I took up running in part because bicycling took too much time.
Now that I’m back to bicycling to give my back a break, I’ve been looking for ways to make the workouts count without having to spend the better part of a day in the saddle (not that there’s anything wrong with that!).
The trouble with bicycling, especially [...]