When the car honks around 1:18 and they all accelerate is one of the cooler things I have seen lately.
Go time, head down, run.
Moses Mosop preparing for Rotterdam Marathon 2012 (by Like2Run)
Patrick Makau, after setting a world record in the marathon. I guess he deserves at least a day off.
iaaf.org - After Berlin runs, Makau and Kiplagat underscore Kenyan distance ascendancy
Sad and shocking. Running world lost an immense talent.
Inspired by this post on Gizmodo, I decided to dink around on Google Trends. For “marathon,” there is a pretty obvious spike for Boston in the spring, and then smaller spikes for NYC and maybe Chicago or something later in the fall. Something of note - this year’s fall peak was as big or bigger than the Boston peak, due to the Chilean miner running NYC.
marathon (via Google Trends: marathon)
This made me, my sister, and the rest of the carload of kids I was driving to the state XC meet laugh. Good work, Abel.
When I saw my race bib number, I knew it was going to be a good day at the races.
(Immediately had to borrow a Sharpie from a volunteer to make the tiny, yet oh-so-very-necessary, POINT.)
