Feeling rejuvenated and possibly on my way to being healed after a month off and some physical therapy, I decided to take on another race this weekend, just up the Route 8 corridor (a drive I’m getting to know well) a half an hour away in Middlebury. It’s a picturesque little town I haven’t visited […]

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We hadn’t yet moved to Woodbridge in time for the 2013 Bagel Run, and I was out of town or out of commission for the 2014 edition, so I was more than ready to check off this easiest of towns this time around. It was a low-stakes way to try my first back-to-back races on […]

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The best part of the 169 Towns website is the giant spreadsheet of upcoming races, and towns without frequent races are labeled “elusive.” I hadn’t hit one of these town yet, so I thought I’d hit Deep River, a town whose name I don’t think I’d ever heard, this weekend. It was just past the […]

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Over the years, I’ve slowly and steadily chipped away at a long mental to-do list made up of concerts by bands I grew up in Alaska loving, but never had a chance to see live. The Pixies were probably the biggest catch on that last, and their now-endless reunion tour gave me ample opportunity to […]

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I spent the six weeks after the Somers race trying to take it easy. I didn’t run, but we did walk a lot in Ireland, and I didn’t lay off quite as much as I would like to have, but that’s life. By the time September rolled around, I was getting a little antsy. I’d […]

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