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Well, well. Sometimes the size of a half-marathon medal is smaller than the size of a full-marathon medal at the same weekend event. Take, for instance, the “his & hers” medals that I got with my wife last Sunday at the 2010 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon, respectively: Completing either distance is …
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I completed the 2010 Chevron Houston Marathon a couple of days ago, and the experience led me to this blog-post title. It was my fourth marathon (my third in Houston). I began the race with a specific goal: Complete it at or under 4:50:00. But I ended the race with a different result: I completed …
Big Sur International Marathon organizers hold several other races the same day as this famous marathon: 21-Miler 10.6-Miler 9-Miler 5K 3K Until today, my “Pace Tables for Runners and Walkers” special report covered only these five, popular distances: 50K Marathon Half Marathon 10K 5K Starting today, my “Pace Tables” report is “Big Sur”-ready! That is, …
Some SpryFeet.com visitors have found that they enjoy their walking or running workouts more when they take their dogs with them. In fact, some research suggests “that people who walk dogs are more consistent about regular exercise and show more improvement in fitness than people who walk with a human companion.” So these SpryFeet.com visitors …
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Sometimes the research that I report on this site is simply about saving you some money. As we head into 2010, here are some coupon codes to save you money on some marathons and 1/2 marathons in the new year. Having run the 2009 San Antonio Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, I now keep getting coupon …
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… and you want to support a great charity, too, then I encourage you to consider donating within the next two days to CanCare. You can sponsor my running the 2010 Chevron Houston Marathon for CanCare. My donations page is here. And time is running out on making a tax-deductible contribution in the year 2009. …
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As you may have seen, I seek to raise $524 for CanCare through my run of the 2010 Chevron Houston Marathon on January 17, 2010. That works out to: 26.2 miles in one morning; $20/mile as a fund-raising goal. But there is a man who has a much greater goal this holiday season — both …
If you have run or walked a marathon, are preparing for one, or have ever thought about completing one, then I want to introduce you to some folks to whom marathons look easy. Let me tell you a little more about them. Their preparation is intense. Their whole family usually gets involved. They often spend …
I heard about this last Sunday while participating in the San Antonio Marathon. I was part way through the route, and a female participant near me advised a third participant — an apparent friend — to use this trick to help him get through the race. Here is what she told her friend: Find a …
I am not talking about how one should properly train for a marathon by covering multiples of the marathon distance during one’s training season. And I am not talking about how the official distance of a marathon is longer than 26.2 miles — that it is actually 26.21875 miles long. No, I am talking about …