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Category Archives: Running
Running the Country
… We hadn’t followed the presidential race closely (shoot, I never even heard of Joe the plumber until after we returned home later that month), as my 60-mile days had become all-consuming. Besides, I’d met all kinds of people along the way, from San Francisco to New York, and trusted that they would make a good decision about who would lead our country. Continue reading
Posted in Run Across U.S., SFO-NYC (2008)
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Training for Your First Ultra Run
An athlete from the United Kingdom sent me an email last week, asking about going from a current fitness level suited to 10K–15K trail runs to preparing to run the length of Hadrian’s Wall, an approximately 84-mile path along the ancient stone and timber fortification in northern England. He plans to do it in May 2011 to raise money for a UK-based charity, Help for Heroes, which gives aid to men and women of the armed forces. Continue reading
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Marathoning for Mature Runners
A fellow in Tuscon asked for advice last week about his training for marathons—at age 58, he runs his first marathon in a couple of weeks—and the possibility of doing a 100-miler to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Here are Jerry Cagle’s questions and my answers,
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