These pictures are from the 1st road race I ran on August 15th. Remember that as you read about my chiropractor 2 entries from this one. This race was a 9 a.m. 5k at Yankee Candle in South Deerfield, Ma.. It was a beautiful start to a sunny but very warm day. Part of the […]
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These pictures are from the Bobby Doyle 5 Mile Summer Classic that I ran as my 2nd race on August 15th. I picked it because it had drawn 550 people the year before, which was it’s 1st year. I was not disappointed. Over 600 people came including 35 soon to be graduating members of the […]
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These are the mechanics in my life. When you decide to take a year off, to do the run that I’m training to do, your financial and physical worlds change. These guys are the ones that keep the old parts working. In the top picture you have Harry Duffy and Mike from Duffy Front End […]
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This is him. Yep, when we raise millions of dollars for a charity and I set new records for the distance that is going to be run, this is the good samaritan “culprit” that you can blame. This is Bill Sullivan who is a tremendously close friend and the person that snapped me into into […]
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This is a story of keeping “Average Al” humble. During the week leading up to the May 22-23rd weekend I searched all the race websites most of you look at to pick your races. By Friday I had selected 2 and Saturday headed to Worcester, MA. to run in the Seven Hills Foundation 5k. I […]
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Sorry about the lapse of time since the last entry. The pics you’re looking at are from the finish line from 31 years ago. the cluster of 4 pics shows the banner I crossed to officially bring an end to the run, Jeff Easley (the Spina Bifida poster child that year) in a miniature version […]
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Hi folks, Sorry about the lapse of time since the last entry. What you have here is a couple of the photos from the finish 31 years ago last Wednesday Aug. 5th. The
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Hi folks, It’s 11:00p.m. on August 4th, 2009. I won’t be posting any photos tonight. But I thought I’d quickly share with you what was going on at 11:00 p.m. on August 4th, 1978. I had arrived to a point just outside my home town (and the finish line for my run) on Tuesday night. […]
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31 years ago on August 5th I was finishing my California- Massachusetts run. As I enter some things onto these blogs I will add in some pictures from now and then and a bit of an insight into the answers to the 2 questions people ask me all the time. 1: Are you F….n nuts? […]
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Well since this week 31 years ago I was about to finish my San Francisco, Ca.-Northampton,Ma. run I thought I’d throw in some pictures and thoughts from then and now. What you have pictured here are First thing is there were no such things as cell phones, PCs, or blogs. When I was running I […]
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