20th Annual Father's Day Road Race - June 15th

It would be greatly appreciated if you were to include details of our 20th Annual Father's Day Road Race on your events calendar. 

The Children's Museum in Easton will be hosting this family event on Sunday, June 15th at 9:00 AM. The Children's Museum is located on 9 Sullivan Avenue, North Easton MA 02356. 

This annual road race includes a 5K and 10K run and a 5K Fun Walk. Registration can be done through the Children's Museum website or registration the day of the race begins at 7:30 AM. 

Prices include: $25 pre-registered, $30 the day of the race, and $10 for walkers. For more information, people can call 508-230-3789, email the Museum at info@childrensmuseumineaston.org, or visit our website!   

Thank you!

The Children's Museum in Easton
9 Sullivan Avenue, North Easton, MA 02356
www.childrensmuseumineaston.org

"helping children and families become life-long learners"

7th Annual Run for Bob

7th Annual Run for Bob 5k Run/Walk

Sat. 10/1, 9am - 1pm 

(run starts @ 10)

431 Washington Street, Franklin 

(formerly Putnam Investments)

kids' activities, games, prizes, food & more! $20 / adult ($25 after 9/26)

$10 / child under 12 and Best Buddies participants

Team rate (4 or more participants/team): $15 / person

Come in Franklin sports shirt - for every 3, get 4th entry free!

Ways to register: runforbob.org or hockymca.org

Ariel Doggett, Hock YMCA Coordinator of Integration: 774.235.2722

Free t-shirts to first 300 registered

** All proceeds go to Best Buddies Franklin chapter and the YMCA **

Together, we honor Bob Biagiotti, a Franklin resident who passed away unexpectedly 7 years ago. Some of his greatest times were spent running in 5k's --pushing his daughter Kayla in a stroller modified for her disability. Kayla is a student at FHS and her mom Kris puts together a great family day here in Franklin to benefit charities that have played special roles in her family's life. Join us for the run/walk, see flyer! After the run, meet us for fun - an adult only night at Pinz,see flyer!

* The benefitting charities work to promote mutually respectful relationships between people of all abilities. The YMCA's Integration Initiative provides children with special needs an opportunity to participate with their typically developing peers in all the programs, services and activities offered at the Y. 

Gloria Gemma 5K Run/Walk

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Gloria Gemma 5K set for October 9, 2010 Please join us on Saturday,October 9, 2010 for the 2nd Annual Gloria Gemma 5K at Flames of Hope: A Celebration of Life. The Gloria Gemma 5K will start and finish on Francis Street in front of the Rhode Island State House.    CLICK HERE to register for the Gloria Gemma 5K now.   The Gloria Gemma 5K will be held in conjunction with Flames of Hope, A Celebration of Life at WaterFire on Saturday, October 9, 2010. The Gloria Gemma 5K is open to runners, walkers and walkers with dogs! Help us continue the fight against breast cancer! With our new registration site you have the ability to fundraise if you choose to do so, it is optional. A portion of what we raise from the 5K will be donated to the RI Department of Health Women's Cancer Screening Program. The more we can raise... together the more we can give.   This year we have added some exciting features: For our serious runners: This race will be timed by the Yankee Timing Company We will be utilizing the newly introduced Bib Tag or B-Tag               Prizes will be awarded to our top finishers For our teams: We have great prizes to be awarded to our highest fundraising teams ranging from dinners at local restaurants to featured articles in print media after the race. For our individual participants: We have gift certificates, dinners and much more in store! Continue to check out our Awards and Prizes link for the latest details. For our walker & their furry friends: Each registered dog will receive a "doggie goodie bag" We will have many pet friendly activities on race morning "Top Dog" awards for our most "Pinked up Pup" and highest fundraising dog Click here to register now!  Visit our website at http://www.gloriagemma5k.org  for further details.

Tri or no tri?

I Had an interesting Friday. I ran my 4 miles in the morning, facilitated the Hopkinton Networking Group meeting, held my first 'office hours' on the Town Common to discuss Franklin matters, and then came home to go for a bike ride along the Blackstone River Bike Path with Dolores.

All went well until about 2.5 miles from the finish when the back tire started chattering at me. I stopped and sure enough, the tire had picked up a splinter of wood that could have easily been a spike. As soon as I removed it, woosh! the air escaped!

Fortunately, it was only 2.5 miles back to the car. Otherwise, Plan B would have been implemented.

A cold frosty went down nicely when we were both safely home, albeit a little later than we anticipated.

So for the scorecard, it was four miles running, 14.5 miles bike ride, and 2.5 miles walk. That's a tri right!

Six miles for Sunday

A great weather day to run. I created a semi-new route combining pieces of other routes to get a longer one in today. Longer in that I wanted more than 5 which I had been doing the past couple of Sundays and a change of scenery. 

As it was Sunday, going out along 140 wouldn't be too bad. The traffic was much lighter this morning than it would be on a Saturday or evening time period. Heading out from Parmenter to 140 starts out mostly downhill and then I end up working up gradually pretty much all the way back. Good for a work out.

Note: while the distance is calculated at 7, I rendezvoused with Dolores at Cafe Dolce for coffee and the walk home. A good six miler for today!

Leave no buddy behind!

Don't like the humidity

Yes, humidity is very high on my running "Don't like" listing. Actually, the only thing higher on the listing is not running at all.

So I do.
Under duress.

With

1. appropriate clothing
2. appropriate hydration
3. a shortened or shaded route
4. earlier in the day (or even later in the dark)
   

and it is not that bad after all. A good workout is going to generate some sweat anyway. Running in humidity just means you get wetter sooner. But as some said, you only get wet once.

Just two easy miles for the log today. I didn't run last Thu or Sun. I really have missed my last two long Sunday runs due to the heat/humidity and quite hopeful that this weekend, I'll be able to get a good run in.

What do you do to run in the heat?

6 miles today

6 miles completed juice and coffee at Cafe Dolce will pick me up for the walk ho, originally uploaded by shersteve.

I did a 6 mile run today and rendezvoused with Dolores and her walk to met at Cafe Dolce. The juice and coffee will pick me up for the walk home together.

Note: these flowers were in the hanging basket outside Cafe Dolce

5 miles, felt like 10

How is that?

I did this route a couple of weeks ago and felt great. Today, I did it but not easily.

Maybe biorhythms do have something to do with it. According to the calculations on a couple of web sites (here and here), they all agree that my physical rhythm is low but rising. Which would make sense.

The charts also showed that two weeks ago, it was much higher. Which also makes sense to have had the great run at that time.

Have you mapped your biorhythms to your runs? How do they work out? Does it make sense?

chased by a headless shadow

this provided more than enough focus to finish the run strong!

Turkey trot

Turkey_trot, originally uploaded by shersteve.

Some Franklin runners hit the roads early today for a run.

This is a good thing to do on a day like today. A little leg and lung exercise before the stomach and elbow exercise later today!

Have a great Thanksgiving all!

Good 6 in the cold

Got my second 6 miler on a Sunday in earlier today. Both last week and today felt good. I used the same route for both runs, a nice rolling course. Last week I started a little slower for the first half, running at 9:15/mile pace and then finished stronger with the last three at about 8:45/mile. Today was much more even, all six miles at 9:00/mile.

Gradual progression scheduled now as I up the distance for my Tue/Thu runs to 3 each and the Sunday run goes to 7 for the two weeks, then 8, then 9, then 10...

Once that far, it should be almost warm enough to run some track work and get into the real FIRST program to get ready for some summer and fall races.

It feels good to be back.

How are your runs going?

Hess Fields trail, Danville, PA

Hess Fields trail, originally uploaded by shersteve.

I had a good run last Sunday while visiting some friends in Central PA. MapMyRun came in handy as I found a run I had mapped last time visiting here and combined that one with a new option to put together a good five mile course including this fine trail stretch.

5 miles today

I had a good run today. Weather was a little warmer, into the 30's F. Overcast, with a little fog as the melting snow tried to rise. Went out on the hilly King-Summer-Mount-Upper Union-King loop I like.

This is a good course to run particularly on the comeback route. There are three hills. The first one, a good half to 3/4 mile long incline with almost a one mile downhill to follow. The second hill is shorter (about half mile) but steeper and followed by another approximately one mile decline. The third hill is both shorter and more of a slope which leads to a flat stretch for the finish.

Why are hills good for the comeback route?
The hill provide resistance so you are working harder for the distance. The best part of running the route in this direction is the combination of the downhills after the inclines. Especially during the comeback, you can let gravity do the work on the downhills. Simply concentrating on form, getting a good stride and rhythm, letting the hill do the work, stretch your legs out and down you go.

I'll expand upon this idea in a future podcast. One of the good things about the run was that I came up with three podcast topics: (1) hills, (2) curse of the splots, and (3) the practicality of glittens.

Pause for the train crossing

Out running a couple of weeks ago, before the snow came, I was carrying my camera to enforce a slow run and capture some local scenes. As I came along Union St, the train signals started. Good timing.



Enjoy!

MapMyRun comes through on the road

MapMyRun came through for me again on the road this weekend. As mentioned elsewhere, I was in the northern VA area and ready to run 3 miles Sunday morning. Driving into the hotel parking lot late Saturday night, it was too dark to get a good look at what the area was like and where I might be able to run.

Rather than just throwing on the running gear and going for a real "explore", I typed in the address of the hotel and scoped out where I could go for three miles. It worked very nicely. I chose not to add the route to my saved favorites but I could have if I wanted to. I don't when or if, I'd be back to this area (not that I wouldn't want to, it was a nice visit).

If you are doing some traveling, check out your travel destination (domestic USA) on MapMyRun!

Passionate Runner: Birthday Run

Another in a series of podcasts on running, this one talking about the celebration run you should make on your birthday. You can run a mile per year, or a tenth of a mile or a minute per year of life to celebrate your birthday. The important thing is to celebrate!

Time: 5 minutes, 10 seconds



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My birthday run posting for this year.

Passionate Runner: Cold, dark recap

another in a series of podcasts on running, this one referring back to two podcasts earlier in the series. One on running in winter, how to layer your clothes to stay warm. The second on running in the dark, avoiding the blacker black to be safe.

Time: 5 minutes, 0 seconds



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Session 5 - Layers for the winter
Session 7 - Running in the dark

My additional podcasts on running can be found here

Joan Nesbit Mabe can be found blogging about running at Songs of Experience
The Carrboro Athletic Club blog can be found here

Birthday run - 5.4 miles

In my younger days, I would run a mile for each year of life to celebrate my birthday. Since I am neither a marathoner nor an ultra-marathoner, I have adjusted my target this year to be a tenth of a mile for each year, hence 5.4 miles.

This was a doable goal. With my recovery, the longest I have gone thus far was three but I felt it would be ok without pushing it too much to go 5.4. It was fine. I had a really good run. An easy pace: running between 9 and 9:30 per mile. It was cold, 18 degrees F with little wind.

Next year, avoiding injury, I should be able to go a minute for each year.

On your birthday, do something special. Choose a mile, tenth of mile, or minute per year to celebrate and mark your birthday.

Enjoy!

Boston Volvo Village - Best Buddies 5K

Carolyn and I joined over 700 other runners for a good 5K early this morning. As this was my fourth time running 3 miles in my recovery process, I was quite pleased with being able to complete the 5K with a continuous run. I started easy and gradually picked some folks off while running comfortably. I averaged about 8:33 per mile finishing in 26:29.

Here are some photos from the race.

(yes, I ran with my camera to help keep me from attempting to try and run this as a race)

Passionate Runner: Life Long Running

another in a series of podcasts this one reflecting on an article in the December issue of Runner's World covering the 5 secrets of life long running.

Time: 7 minutes 3 seconds



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Note: has anyone else had trouble finding an article on Runner's World? It seems they don't put all the print issue online.