After a big flurry of CVR Participation Series races in June and especially July, I sat here in the later part of August with two of ten races still to go before the September 6 deadline: The Adamant Half Marathon, which I am running at the very end, and the Barre Heritage Festival 5K TrailContinue reading “8/25/20: CVR Participation Series Barre Heritage Trail Run 5K”
Tag Archives: 5K
8/12/20: Suffrage Scramble/NSB 5K
It seems like an unreasonably short amount of time, but this year marks 100 years since women were granted the right to vote in this country. (Meaning for the first 144 years they could not – we aren’t even all that to the 50% mark of US history yet!). To mark the occasion, the CentralContinue reading “8/12/20: Suffrage Scramble/NSB 5K”
7/21/20 CVR PS Barre Town Spring Run 5K; 7/22/20 CVR PS Northfield Savings Bank 5K
My habit of training and racing without a real plan came into sharp relief this week when I found myself running 5K races on back-to-back days. I didn’t come into the week planning to do this. I didn’t really have a plan at all coming into the week. But we will get to what happenedContinue reading “7/21/20 CVR PS Barre Town Spring Run 5K; 7/22/20 CVR PS Northfield Savings Bank 5K”
6/30/20: CVR Participation Series/Paul Mailman 5K
I am already fully embracing the CVR Participation Race series. It’s so easy to squeeze almost all of these into my regular training schedule. 5 miler at Berlin Pond on a Thursday night? Easy peasy! Midweek 5K on the Paul Mailman course in town? Can do! Today was another “gotta go to the office” day.Continue reading “6/30/20: CVR Participation Series/Paul Mailman 5K”
6/13/20: Whiskey Run 5K Virtual Race
As far as virtual races go, this one is extremely virtual. And yet also quite rewarding. A few weeks ago I saw an ad on Facebook for the Whiskey Run 5K virtual race. Basically if you click on one of these things, you’ll see ads for all of them. I clicked on one a fewContinue reading “6/13/20: Whiskey Run 5K Virtual Race”
5/7/20: Faux Corporate Cup
Oh, man, I was looking forward to this one. The Corporate Cup is my race. It was the first 5K I ever ran, back in 2017. 4,000 people in downtown Montpelier inspired me to try running after I had walked a couple of times. It’s one of Montpelier’s biggest parties every year. And every yearContinue reading “5/7/20: Faux Corporate Cup”
4/18/20: CVR Social Distancing Virtual Race, 5K
I was surprised last week with the news that, to somewhat compensate for all of the race cancellations that are now stretching into the summer, Central Vermont Runners initiated virtual race series, that will stretch for 8 weeks into early June. This is a no-cost, social distancing fun run, with results “verified” via your StravaContinue reading “4/18/20: CVR Social Distancing Virtual Race, 5K”
10/19/19: Danville Zombie Run
With the Leaf Peepers Half Marathon, and the 2019 Race Series, in the books, I wasn’t sure how the rest of the running year would play out. I found that it was nice to have races to look forward to. But I also found that I enjoyed “generic training,” running to stay in shape withContinue reading “10/19/19: Danville Zombie Run”
9/22/19: Race Against Racism
The week after the Genny Tenny – the week of the running of the Sodom Pond 4 miler – I was walking to work and saw a flyer for the Race Against Racism 5K, sponsored by the students of Montpelier High School. It was an inspiring week already, with the Student Climate Strike on Thursday,Continue reading “9/22/19: Race Against Racism”
8/31/19: Northfield Savings Bank 5K
The first race back under the belt, I set my sights on more the CVR Race Series events. In the back of my mind – or maybe the middle of it – I was thinking about the half marathon in October. The only way to prep for that was to run more. Next up inContinue reading “8/31/19: Northfield Savings Bank 5K”
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