Yankee Homecoming 10 Mile and 5K Races, August 1, 2017 - writeup by Mike Pelletier and Linda Desjardins. On a night not made for running, not if one considers 85 degrees and humidity to be counter to any desirable running conditions, many runners threw caution to the (lack of) wind and sweated out two races. There were nearly 2,000 5K finishers and close to 1,000 10 mile … [Read more...]
Miles Over the Moon 4-Mile Race
- Recap by Michael Pelletier. Just like last year, conditions at this Friday evening race with its 8 pm start were ideal: 63o with a light Easterly wind. Seven members of the North Shore Striders were there to take advantage of the favorable conditions and compete in the ninth event of the 2017 NSS Grand Prix. The seven Striders joined another 361 runners in competing for … [Read more...]
Back to the Moxie Fest
By Mary Stevens - Suppose you were a really good runner, a contender to win every 5K you entered. Would you run to win if you knew your grand prize was a case of Moxie, the State of Maine's Official Soft Drink? This is a question I always ponder as I trot the Moxie Days 5K in Lisbon Falls, Maine. The race kicks off my Moxie Days ritual, and it's followed by a pancake … [Read more...]
Birding a 10K
By Mary Stevens Summer rolls in on waves of humid air, and the odds are good that we'll all be running a race in sweltering conditions. Those odds get even 'better' when we commit to run longer races this time of year. Nevertheless, I signed up for Hamilton's venerable Wiener Run 10K (Roger Perham, director) a couple of weeks ago because it was right in the neighborhood and I … [Read more...]
Run Loud!
By Mary Stevens. Can a retail clothing company make it onto Mary’s Short List of Preferred Merchants, joining New England Running Company, Sherman’s and the bottlers of Moxie? Yes! Recently I was walking around the post-race festivities at the Mount Washington Road Race, when the Handy Spandy tent found me. More accurately, several racks full of screaming-loud running … [Read more...]
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