“One more loop! One more loop! One more loop!” chants the entire aid station, followed by any and all within earshot of our final departure from the camp. I start thinking about it, knowing we just pulled off a five hour loop, and looking at my watch, I can’t help but get al...
I enjoy the environment so quiet and so serene– something that I mostly just enjoy in the more suburban sections of the region. It is a loop I manage to walk because work has rather been “slow,” relative to how it has been the past weeks. Even weeks after being at a state of Sh...
The 8K is an unusual but delightful race distance. At 4.97 miles, it has some key advantages: (1) It’s long enough that you feel like you get your money’s worth. (2) For those of us who hit our stride at 2 miles in, it makes more sense than a 5K/3.1 miles. (3) It can ...
Pre-race favourite Chekwemoi, aged just 17, won the women’s race by more than 80 seconds, while 23-year-old Chebolei had a tighter contest in the men’s event. Ethiopian teenager Shimeles Mekides Molla put in an early surge after the first 2km loop of the women’s 10km race with...
Sleep – B:I hit my 8 hour goal every night except one, but I didn’t feel rested. Most nights, I was waking up in the middle of the night and I’d have a hard time going back to sleep. By Thursday, I was exhausted and went to bed before 9pm, which may have helped me “re...
As I headed back out onto the trail for my second loop, my pace started to dip into the 7:50s. One mistake I probably made: Not taking in enough fluids. The race only had two stations with volunteers handing out cups of water and Gatorade. Since it was a double out and back, I ...
I got in from the first loop at 2 hours and 33 minutes…pretty close to my goal which got me excited for the second loop. So excited that I really should have stayed at the aid station a while longer. But I was excited to see if I could get another 2.5 hour loop in. So I took...
The venue for the run was in Pachaug State Park. Over the course of the marathon we hit the Pachaug, Nehantic & Quinebaug trails. The double loop marathon course also took us up/down Mt Misery, Breakneck Hill & onto Hell Hallow Road. As road runners we love our roads. Up/down or ...
At the bottom of the Barley Mouth descent, when I saw a pair of headlamps shining up from below me, I was confident enough to call out directions before continuing on, amazed to be passing anyone nearly twelve hours into what should have been at most a twelve-hour loop. But then I ...
I was making pretty good time, and I recall seeing I was at 1 hour 32 minutes at an aid station just past 6 miles. Oh man, I am going to crush this. Going to be low 3 hours for sure. I decided to take one of my 2 GUs at this point. I had only bought some GU at the ...