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On my morning run the other day (with single digit temperatures), I ran along a section of road frequented by many, who mostly commute from the relative comfort of a speeding vehicle -- especially with the mercury hovering so close to a 'shut out' (0)...
Running often doesn't get the recognition of more main stream sports such as basketball, baseball, football, or even ice hockey, and likely never will...
By partnering with many well known local charitable and not-for-profit groups, the 2008 Mount Desert Island Marathon helped raise substantial funding in support of our valued friends and neighbors...
One thing besides the days growing shorter and the air growing colder that always surfaces this time of year is the dreaded New Year's resolution, how many of you reading this make these annual, almost impossible to keep pledges?...
Just having read a feature story by the excellent editor of the Bar Harbor Times, Greg Fish titled, 'Retail Sales take a Hit', I have to wonder if the message that we have been preaching over the past 7 years is getting through to our community...
As gasoline spiked at nearly 4 dollars a gallon in June, many wisely chose to park their family gas guzzlers or even sell the "I gotta have the biggest damn hemi-powered SUV on the planet" mentality...
Runners are always looking to better their past performances and themselves. However, we believe that anything worth doing is worth doing even better...
Hash, that is. Sound delicious? Although it can technically be made of a combination of any finely chopped ingredients, hash is often a mixture of beef, onions, potatoes, and spices that are mashed together into a coarse, chunky paste, and then cooked, either alone, or with other ingredients...
As the dust settled on the wildly successful 2008 Mount Desert Island Marathon, the next edition was being planned just as quickly and registration was opened by noon the following day, with participants from 16 different US states and 2 Canadian provinces already registered to run with us again on MDI, next Oct 18, 2009...
With gratitude, the Mount Desert Island Marathon (a registered 501(c)(3), non-profit organization) thanks its sponsors, volunteers, spectators and supporters for yet another banner event Ð the biggest and best yet...
The seeds of the Mount Desert Island Marathon were first sown almost 28 years ago while attending the 1980 New York City Marathon...
Cooks combine all the key ingredients to create masterpieces of culinary delight, usually by following a recipe...
Welcome to the latest incarnation of running on the web. I'll start my first post by criticizing myself; not so much me, but this medium...
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Hermon firefighter Joe Dunton runs the Belfast to Camden leg of a 130-mile relay race from Bar Harbor to Brunswick in celebration of the movie "Spirit f the Marathon", which premiered on Thursday...
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The spirit of the marathon ran through the veins of seven Maine men on Jan. 24, as they made the pilgrimage from Bar Harbor to Brunswick to watch the one day showing of the long awaited film, "Spirit of the Marathon"...
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One-hundred years ago Thursday marked a momentous occasion not only for the city of Rockland, but for the state of Maine as well. At 10:47 a.m. Thursday morning exactly one century ago, thousands of spectators turned out in Rockland for the first ever marathon run in the Pine Tree State. One-hundred years later, downtown Rockland lacked thousands of spectators, but that did not hinder the efforts of a group of historians as roughly 30 people lined up to take part in a re-creation of that very race which took place back in 1908...
With the documentary film "Spirit of the Marathon" showing at just one Maine theater during its Thursday, Jan. 24 nationwide premier, members of two Maine running clubs, Spudland Racers and Crow Athletics, decided to run the approximately 130 miles from Bar Harbor to Brunswick to view the film...
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Why would otherwise normal-seeming human beings spend up to ten hours running 50 miles, in four-mile laps, on an island several miles out in the Atlantic Ocean? Because they can...
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"Friends, neighbors, legislators and fellow runners were stunned this week as word circulated that Bill Pinkham, 62, died Monday after collapsing at the end of the Walter Hunt Memorial Fourth of July 3,000-Meter Road Race in Bangor..."
"A contingent of 17 Hancock County runners, ranging in age from 27 to 67, will join a field of as many as 20,000 on Monday for the running of the 109th Boston Marathon..."
"Saturday's third annual George Schaefer Memorial Road Race was indeed a race..."
"Five teams and nine individuals competed in Saturday's sixth annual Mountain to the Sea Triathlon, organized by the James Russell Wiggins Down East Family YMCA..."
"Allen, who organized the relay, took the opportunity to break the United States Track and Field American masters long distance track running record for men ages 45-49. Allen, 46, completed 20 miles in 2:08:41, beating the previous record of 2:09:14, set by Ted Corbitt in Great Britain in 1966, by 33 seconds..."
"Some friendships are measured by time. Not many are measured by distance. Jeff Weisbruch, who is battling brain cancer, has 824.75 miles worth of friends..."
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"[Gary] Allen had come dressed for the B2B occasion: He was wearing a black bowler hat, bow tie, jacket with tails over his Crow Athletics singlet, and black knee socks, possibly silk..."
"As Crows co-founder and MDI Marathon director Gary Allen explained, the usual pattern is for a club
to form and then some time later create a marathon. But here, with typical Crow perversity, the marathon came first..."
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