This one was a win for the algorithm. Sometime early in 2024, a race ad came across my Facebook feed, as has happened many times in recent years. “Announcing the Roma Half Marathon.” As readers of this blog are aware, Katie and I love a good destination race. Readers may not know that I loveContinue reading “10/20/24: Rome Half Marathon”
Tag Archives: Half Marathon
1/13 – 1/15/23: Bermuda Triangle Challenge
A few months ago I was scrolling Strava, as I do far too much during any given day, and came across a person in the CVR feed who posted a run in Bermuda. Having never been to Bermuda, I was struck by how much of the island his fairly shortish run covered. “I bet aContinue reading “1/13 – 1/15/23: Bermuda Triangle Challenge”
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””
5/11/21: Adamant Half Marathon
Just two weeks after the Paul Mailman Ten Miler, the next race in the CVR season is the Adamant Half Marathon and Relay, which starts and finishes in the lovely village of Adamant in Calais, Vermont. The course is a figure 8 with an 8-mile loop through East Montpelier followed by a 5.1-mile loop throughContinue reading “5/11/21: Adamant Half Marathon”
4/10/21: Half Marathon Unplugged
I was excited for this race, as it was to be the first half marathon that I’ve run twice as a live race. Adding to this was the fact that the first time I ran the race, last October, I set my PR for the distance. It’s a flat and fast course in a funContinue reading “4/10/21: Half Marathon Unplugged”
10/24/20: Half Marathon Unplugged
After seven months of postponements and cancellations, and over 8 months following my last “live” event, the Half Marathon Unplugged offered the opportunity to go out and run a race in real time against more than a handful of other people. In the face of the ongoing pandemic, with cases on the rise across theContinue reading “10/24/20: Half Marathon Unplugged”
10/4/20: Leaf Peepers Half Marathon
Three races in one week probably isn’t the best way to go about setting personal records, even for someone who hasn’t been running all that long. But, as discussed in my last entry, in lining my training up for a real half marathon in a few weeks, it made sense for me to take onContinue reading “10/4/20: Leaf Peepers Half Marathon”
9/5/20: CVR Participation Series Adamant Half Marathon
With weeks of preparation in my pocket, and the CVR Participation Race Series coming to an end, I felt ready to go for the final race, the Adamant Half Marathon. My anticipation and excitement for the race only increased in the days beforehand, as a handful of fellow CVR club members popped up on StravaContinue reading “9/5/20: CVR Participation Series Adamant Half Marathon”
9/1/20 Training Update: Adamant About Preparation
I’ve been writing pretty much all summer about the CVR Participation Race series: ten races were cancelled this summer due to Covid-19, and so the club, Central Vermont Runners, said “run the courses anyway and you’ll be entered into a prize raffle.” By the end of July, I had pretty much all of them checkedContinue reading “9/1/20 Training Update: Adamant About Preparation”
5/23/20: Vermont City Marathon relay substitute
Regular readers of this blog will know that, even before COVID-19 turned our world upside down, I’ve been looking forward to this weekend. The Vermont City Marathon. My best friend Brock and I were planning to run the half-and-half relay. When the race was postponed, I put it on my calendar to run a halfContinue reading “5/23/20: Vermont City Marathon relay substitute”
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