Archive for December 2008
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Faster Masters – Joe K, Holiday 4, XC
Conventional wisdom is that masters athletes take longer to recover than younger runners. Some coaches – heck, one of our coaches – say that it takes an athlete of any age one day to recover per mile raced. Being unconventional has a payoff sometimes, and Stuart Calderwood is attestation. He ran the Philadelphia Marathon on [...]
USATF XC National Club Championships
Good luck and fast times to all our team members who are headed out to Spokane to run in the USATF Club Cross Country National Championships this weekend.
Joe Kleinerman 10k (Dec 7 2008)
Joe Kleinerman 10k, Central Park (December 7, 2008).
Team Championships Preview
Remember how Joan Benoit won the 1984 Olympic Marathon by over a minute? This isn’t like that at all. Three team championships are so close this year that they will be decided in the last points race of the year this weekend.
Two of the contests are within two points and the other is just 11 [...]
Turkey Trot Wrap-Up
While most people spend Thanksgiving Day in a tryptophan-induced haze, engaging in awkward political arguments with drunk relatives, or oohing-and-aaahing at the floats in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, many CPTC’ers couldn’t let well enough alone. Instead, they laced up their racing flats at ungodly hours and went to run Turkey Trots. An admirable fanaticism, for which we should all give thanks.
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