Category: Running Adventures
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Mystic Runners Lake Q 5k May 24 2017
Mystic Runners Lake Q 5k takes place every Wednesday evening in Wakefield, MA. It’s been going on since I can remember and is the weekly club run for The Mystic Runners. Mystic Runners Lake Q 5k I’ve run with The Mystics quite a few times. Two years ago when I was going for 50 5K…
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Sunday Long Run 2017 Winchester Highlands
Sunday Long Run Week Seven The “Winchester Highlands Run” is a particularly challenging Sunday long run. The long course is 16.2 miles full of hills. It is also a step up week from the previous week’s 12.5 mile run. Out total elevation gain and loss is 600 feet. Now if that were spread over 16.2…
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Running the Cambridge Fall Classic 2016
The Cambridge Fall Classic is always a good time. I’ve run the Fall Classic a few times, and the Winter and Spring Classic a few times also. The course is always the same, and for some people that’s a problem. I like to run new courses also but there is something fun about running the…
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Taper Time 2016
I’m in my first full week of taper time, and I’m felling a little better. Last week I had a lot of stuff on my mind. I’m behind on my training and my fundraising, and time is running out! I knew these would be issues going into this, but it became very corpreal last week…
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Snowy Long Run
It’s April in Massachusetts, and still it snows! We have had some normal spring weather and a day or two in the 70’s. Most of us thought we were done with Jack Frost. Snowy Long Run This week we began our taper and the Sunday Long Run dropped down to 14.8 miles. I planned to…
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Running for Home
Up until last weekend I was just running for the fun of it, to keep in shape and hang out with my friends. No pressure. Running for Home This week I began my brief training to run the 2016 Boston Marathon and support FamilyAid Boston. This Sunday we did 16.4 miles with plenty of hills.…