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The men get 9 of the top 13 spots, going 1,2,4

Gina Kolata, in yesterday’s NY Times, laments her injury problem in training, jeopardizing her running this year’s NY Marathon. We all feel for her. As a 59 year old runner, I have arrived at a few notions about injuries.
The most salient conclusion is, it is better to sacrifice optimal  training for injury prevention. Those problems which are apparent [...]

CPTC masters won three medals in the Marathon Tune-Up on Sunday. Unfortunately, I can’t rank the performances statistically by age-graded percentages because the NYRRC doesn’t include such stats for the oddball 18-mile distance. So instead I’ll rank performances by the seat of my pants. Interestingly, masters had the five fastest CPTC times today - I can’t [...]

view this post for links of photos of the race and benefit

The Benefit was great! I personally had a very nice time. I always find it very interesting to see people in regular clothing when most of the time I’ve only seen them in running shorts and shirts. Everybody looked great.
I enjoyed listening to Alan Webb speak and answer questions from the audience. He seemed like [...]

The Fifth Avenue Mile on Sunday was a runner’s paradise – beautiful weather, big crowds on Fifth Avenue, and a great match-up that came down to the wire between Olympic 1500 meter bronze medalist Nick Willis and Bernard Lagat, both of whom, to put it mildly, were moving. Leading up the headline race were some [...]

Jamaica may have Usain Bolt, but we have Rae Baymiller. Rae ran a 6:09 mile Sunday, which, had it been run on a track, would have been a world record, according to www.world-masters-athletics.org. And it would have broken the old mark by seven seconds. Her age-graded score reflected the uncharted territory of her run: 100.1%.
On [...]

Sid Howard and Alan Webb

Chris Potter, Alan Webb and John Roberts

More photos can be found at spear.smugmug.com

Congrats to all our 5th Ave racers yesterday!  Here are some terrific photos!  Photos include some amazing shots of the Local Elites, and the professional races.  There are also some photos from the various heats.  5th Ave Mile
Enjoy!

The following photos are posted on Runnersworld.com:
http://www.runnersworld.com/boston2008/wellesley/slide9.html
http://www.runnersworld.com/boston2008/wellesley/slide10.html
http://www.runnersworld.com/boston2008/wellesley/slide11.html