Tag: marathon

As someone with fairly ordinary physical gifts, I have been asked many times how I have frequently accomplished things many might

On the final day of 2020 I stepped onto the treadmill for a 62-mile run which was relatively short for me this year It brought my total

“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming  the person you most want to be Put your

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond” -- Brian Tracy” I have effectively been training for the 2020

April 20, 2020 is Patriots Day and was expected to be the Boston Marathon Covid-19 has altered those plans and the lives, all too often

I only have 54 of these decades under my belt so far, and yet, that is enough for me to find a little awe in the 2010-2020 decade of my

As the first serious snowstorm of the season descends upon New England and much of the country, I'm ending a weekend of thanksgiving by

"It is difficult to train for a marathon; but it is even more difficult to not be able to train for a marathon" - Aaron Douglas

"The marathon can humble you" -​ Bill Rodgers, winner of four Boston Marathons "Boston Billy" knows what he's talking about and he's a

Running the Boston Marathon totally blind holds more than sufficient challenge, such as the arduous training requirements on

Launching into the new year, I join many in reflecting on the past year’s accomplishments and setbacks I prefer to use these as a bit

By Randy Pierce The 2018 Boston Marathon featured the worst marathon weather I’ve ever experienced: cold temperatures, relentless

By Randy Pierce “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done” —Thomas

By Randy Pierce “Running is 90% Mental and 10% physical” – runner’s adage Certainly there is much more than 10% physical involved

By Greg Neault I was running when I wrote this, so sue me if it goes too fast A lot of people have asked me why I decided to run a

By Randy Pierce  "The real purpose of running isn't to win a race It's to test the limits of the human heart" —Bill Bowerman, track

By Randy Pierce The arrival of August heralded the start of my training for the California International Marathon (CIM) for December 3

By Randy Pierce “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much" --Hellen Keller My original goal was simply to share time

By Randy Pierce “Life is what happens while we are busy making other plans” – John Lennon Recently our focus has been upon the

By Randy Pierce Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early