Another race I wasn’t sure what to expect from. The 2022 Berlin Pond 5 Mile race fell just a few days after I ran 27 miles at Six Hours on Lovers Lane. Right off the top, this doesn’t sound like the circumstance to run a great race. That said, I felt surprisingly strong in theContinue reading “8/18/22: Berlin Pond 5 Miler”
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8/13/22: Six Hours on Lovers Lane
A different sort of race. Run the same loop over and over as many times as you can over the course of six hours. Whoever runs the most laps wins. Is this a test of one’s mental and physical fortitude, or a guaranteed descent into madness? Only one way to find out. Last year myContinue reading “8/13/22: Six Hours on Lovers Lane”
7/30/22: Moosalamoo “Baby Moose”
In life, there’s a distinction to be made between things not going right, and things going wrong. If things don’t go right, nothing really bad happens, but nothing good happens either. If things go wrong, something bad happens. Maybe more than one “something bad.” A good recent race example of the former would be theContinue reading “7/30/22: Moosalamoo “Baby Moose””
7/9/22: Bear Swamp Race
Next up in the CVR race series, the Bear Swamp race in Middlesex. This was a good three-week break following the Birdland 5K. My injury problems were lessening, but still there, and there were good days in bad days. In particular, my lower right leg inflammation often bothered if I didn’t take ibuprofen before aContinue reading “7/9/22: Bear Swamp Race”
June 18, 2022: Birdland Trail 5K
For my first race, post-marathon, I chose one almost literally in my back yard: the Birdland 5K at North Branch Park, sponsored by Onion River Outdoors. The marathon left me with a painful IT band and lower right leg inflammation – more accurately, training for the marathon started these problems – so I took someContinue reading “June 18, 2022: Birdland Trail 5K”
5/29/22: Vermont City Marathon
Two and a half years after I signed up, with my initial relay plans kiboshed and multiple delays due to the (still ongoing) Covid pandemic, the day finally came: Vermont City Marathon. Initially this was supposed to be a buddy relay with my friend Brock. When he couldn’t make it, I turned it into theContinue reading “5/29/22: Vermont City Marathon”
5/18/22 Training Update: VCM in 11 Days
Ideally I would have started writing about this training plan a while back, but life y’know. I’ve written many times about my plans to run the half-and-half relay at the Vermont City Marathon. The first attempt was postponed due to Covid-19, then I deferred twice, the second time because my running partner Brock had aContinue reading “5/18/22 Training Update: VCM in 11 Days”
4/23/22: Sleepy Hollow Mountain Race
Back in 2019, when I first started running and I didn’t know any other runners, figuring out a race schedule was easy. I just looked at the CVR race schedule and ran what I could. Three years on I have not only several friends who are running a variety of races, but the social mediaContinue reading “4/23/22: Sleepy Hollow Mountain Race”
2022 Race Schedule
Subject to change. CVR Races in Bold.
3/27/22: Kaynor’s Sap Run
I was ambivalent about this race in the weeks leading up. On the one hand, this is an “old friend” race; in this case, the first 10K I ever ran, back in 2019. On the other hand: it’s an hour from Montpelier, gas is really expensive, it was supposed to be snowy and windy, theContinue reading “3/27/22: Kaynor’s Sap Run”
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