There’s just something poetically beautiful about running during fallThere’s a lot of reasons runners like running during the fall in generalThe biggest being that paces drop quickly. The doubts that plagued whether you’d hit your peak fitness over the summer because you can’t get anywhere near your normal pacing.It rather melts away as it gets cooler, the worries and the slower ...
Have you ever had the thought of “what goes through a runner’s head?” It seems like those on the faster end would have all the positive thoughts in the world. I mean…they’re fast…so things must go well for them all the time right? Not so. All runners have their good and bad days, great races and others that…will not be ...
When I’m training for a marathon, it’s inevitable that my long-run days are filled with the same recurring thoughts: “I want pastries!” or some variation like, “Should I stop at Walmart for a cheese Danish?” or “Why aren’t there any good bakeries nearby?”Every year I run the Moore & Giles Virginia 10 Miler, and right before mile 5 there’s a ...
When the remnants of Hurricane Helene swept across western North Carolina in late September 2024, Asheville and its neighboring towns were left reeling. Torrential rain pushed both the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers to historic levels, cresting above their previous records from the catastrophic 1916 flood. In just three days, more than 14 inches of rain fell in Asheville—an amount ...
Editor’s Note: This article was edited to substitute <blank> in place of the original word used in the article. Readers are invited to use a word of their choosing each time <blank> occurs in this article.I was standing at the finish line of the South Mountains Half Marathon Trail race, waiting for my wife to finish what I would consider ...
Two days post “race” and I sit here, very delicately, leaning a little to one side on my posterior muscle, and thinking “well, it could have been a lot worse!” Oh, it was a challenge all right, this 50-miler at Umstead Park on April 5th, 2025. Easy course (as far as 50/100 milers go), great volunteers, excellent food and aid ...
What’s this article about Muddy Creek? What’s going on at Muddy creek? What’s with those pictures at the greenway? The mystery of the paintings at Muddy Creek have been solved! There are 5 newly installed paintings at Jamison Park at the entrance of Muddy Creek Greenway that artist and teacher Amy Beth Cruz created. She was commissioned by Winston-Salem’s Public Art ...
I propose adding a new diagnosis to the medical dictionaries: running-intolerant. It can be defined as “not able to trot, jog, or run any distance without feeling tortured.”I was running-intolerant until the age of 27. As a self-proclaimed “lifting faster is my cardio” type of athlete, I preferred workouts with short bursts of high effort throughout a 90-minute gym session ...
As far as destination races go, you could do a lot worse than the Royal Victoria Marathon in Victoria, BC. This event also features a half, 8K, and 5K. Victoria is a beautiful city in the Pacific Northwest nestled between Vancouver, BC to the north and Seattle, WA to the south. The total number of participants in the three events are ...
In case you missed it, another fantastic racing weekend was accomplished the weekend of November 16th as almost 60 of TCTC’s finest members took on the Richmond races to cap the success of another travel race for the club. 3 races of varying distances: Full marathon, half marathon and the 8k provided differing challenges for our runners. This race isn’t run ...