Category: Running Adventures
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Boston Marathon 2018 Race Weekend
Boston Marathon 2018 Race Weekend As a GBA local I got to have an entire Boston Marathon weekend experience. On Friday afternoon I got to go to the Boston Marathon Expo and be among the first few thousand people to walk the floor. The vendors were generous with samples and the crowd was just trickling…
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Medford Long Run
The Melrose Running Club has a Sunday Long Run program for spring and fall marathon runners. In 2017 my marathon was in December and well after the Sunday Long Run program ended. Without an organized program I had to come up with my own runs and one was the Medford Long Run. Medford Long Run…
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Honolulu Marathon 2017
Hawai’i Dreamin! On occasion I’ve written about destination races. In 2017 I finally signed up for and ran my first official destination marathon: The Honolulu Marathon! Hawai’i always seemed too far to travel and has a reputation for being expensive. Lucky for me, my sister recently moved to Hawai’i and I was able to book a…
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Sunday Long Run Season is Over
Sunday Long Run 15 This year the Melrose Running Club made a few adjustments to accommodate our Chicago Marathon runners. Their race was on October 8th, so Jim Carson had to accelerate their schedule to get a 22 mile run in on September 17th, and still have time for an orderly taper. Everyone else is…
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Sunday Long Run Number 6 for 2017
Sunday Long Run Number 6 Now that I’m committed to a 2017 marathon, the training must go on. I rely on the Sunday Long Run program to get in my weekly long run. If it wasn’t for this program, getting in my miles and these long runs would be much more challenging. This week the official…
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Saturday Running Sunday Kayaking
The Melrose Running club began their “Fall Sunday Long Run Program” this week. We call it the Fall Program because local runners use it to prepare for their fall marathons. Because the MRC had their summer party Saturday night, we had our first run on Saturday. We didn’t want anyone staying up too late and…