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IRONMAN Lake Placid 2017
Last year for the Wilmington Whiteface 100k mountain bike race, I was staying in Lake Placid with my wife and then 1.5 year old son. At that point I had finished 6 full marathons, 2 half iron distance triathlons, and a handful of shorter triathlons. A full iron was…
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Maine Coast Marathon 39.3 Challenge
Last year I ran the Maine Coast Marathon for the first time, and really enjoyed it. So, given my plans for 2017, when registration opened up in October I signed up to use it as training towards IRONMAN Lake Placid. Since I wasn't running Maine as a goal race with…
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Second annual Thanksgiving Eve run home
Last year was the first year the weather had cooperated enough to follow though on an idea my friend Dave and I had been kicking around for a couple years: a long run home from the office on Thanksgiving Eve. This year we once again had great weather for it.…
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Baystate Marathon 2016
The Baystate Marathon is a great race to set a PR at or pick up a Boston qualifier. It's a well run race on a flat course, with well stocked and run aid stations, and plenty of clocks along the course to keep track of just what pace you're on…
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Leadville 100 MTB 2016
Back in 2013 at the Hampshire 100 mountain bike race, my friend Adam and I were pre-riding the beginning of the course talking about some "bucket list" events we'd like to do at some point. One that came up was the Leadville 100 MTB, the mountain bike counterpart to the…