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New Jersey Track & Field - Qualifying for 2025 NSGA

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Missing the Athletic Competition - Tune in to World Masters Athletics

Is your armchair missing you? You were there with it the last few weeks for the Paris Olympics. If you are looking for an opportunity to continue that closeness, there is another opportunity to spend time with it and to stream some great competition from Gothenburg, Sweden. The World Masters Athletics Championships are ongoing through August 25. Those participating include 7,000 participants…

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Wisconsin Dells by Boat

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Summer Sojourn to the Pan-American Masters Games

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Thank you HARRC and Hall of Famer Inductees

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Walking the Ottawa Marathon

Before I take you on the road of my most recent spontaneous decision to walk it, let me tell you about the Tartan Ottawa International Marathon. This is arguably the most beautiful marathon course I have experienced. Set along the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s capital city. About 100 miles from the US border, this international marathon is reasonably accessible. This is a large race…

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A Take-it-Easy May at Detweiler Park

After months of marathon training, then running a very wam Boston Marathon, I’ve taken the month of May to kick back with some easy running and hiking. Lately, I’ve found myself drawn to the soft meadows and moderate climb in Detweiler Park. Detweiler Park is new as park goes, open to the public for about seven years. Located on the way up Peter’s Mountain, it is serene and quiet, and yet only a…

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Boston 2024 - A disappointing finish time and an age category award. Are both possible?

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Run with the Wind - Capital 10-Miler - a Run for the Arts

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Great Aloha Run 2024

I couldn’t let February end without a race. For the third time in the 40 year history of this race, I lined up for the 7 a.m. start of the Great Aloha Run, ready to make my way from the Aloha Clock Tower to Aloha Stadium. The Aloha Run is not a typical distance, measuring out at 8.2 miles. I used it as a 10-miler in my marathon training schedule and added a mile warmup before the race and a…

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A Brief (Walking) Visit to Ford Island

My January streak of solo runs broke on O’ahu last week. I joined runners who gather on Tuesday evening at running store Runner’s Hi in Aiea. Runners meet at the store at 5:30 and run to and around Ford Island in Pearl Harbor on O’ahu. I was beat from an earlier long run, so when someone said they were walking, I decided to join them. Ford Island is an active duty military base located within…

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2023 Running ends in a Fizzle

Unlike the New Year’s celebrations on the Island of O’ahu, where firecrackers begin popping about 5 pm today, the crescendo building around 10 pm with fireworks across the sky and at midnight the sound reverberates across the valleys and a blue haze covers the island,and unlike the happy gathering of my family and friends tonight and into New Year’s Day, the end of my running year was a…

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'That 70's Show' Relay Team at the Harrisburg Marathon

After a couple of months of full-on hiking, I wasn’t trained to run the Harrisburg Marathon. What to do but join this group of guys running the marathon relay in an over-age 70 team. Meet ‘That 70’s Show” Relay Team- Frank, Mary Lou (aka stillarunner), Tony, our organizer/manager Brad, and Gregg. We did a post-run/breakfast photo day before the marathon, knowing we would not all be in the same…

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A Day with Green Sea Safari in Croatia

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Soaking in the Walled City of Dubrovnik

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Last day of Croatia Hiking, Islands of Mljet and Sveta Marija

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Hiking Croatia - Vidova Gora on Brac Island