"I want you to push yourself on the hills," my Saturday running assignment read. "Dig deep and crest the hill before you let off the gas." Saturday's route would be a 14-miler that included several of the more punishing hills in the Ann Arbor area. In particular, the climb up to the Barton Hills Country …
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I WALKED AROUND WITH A GLOW OF SATISFACTION. I had just won a race - a 5K trail race, as I recall - and I was trying to figure out how much to brag about it and to whom. Wouldn't do to be overly immodest, after all. Then I felt something nudge my head. My …
POP QUIZ: What's the hardest thing for a runner to do? (Hint: It isn't running fast, or running long.) ANSWER: Nothing. That is, the hardest thing an active guy like me can do is be inactive. And just how hard it is manifested itself today. Now, the term "active" can mean more than lacing up …
WELL, THE BUG FINALLY BIT ME. The Boston Marathon bug, that is. Now wait a minute, I hear you say. Isn't the Boston Marathon the ultimate goal of every runner? How can you not have run it by now? Yes, it may be hard to believe, but up until now I had no desire to …
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