Free programs for runners
Saratoga Hospital is holding two free programs for runners looking to improve their overall level of fitness: (1) Senior Physical Therapist Dominick Marchesiello and Physical Therapist Ashley Smith...
View ArticleRunning news recap: Are marathon runners narcissistic?
This week’s running news recap features an interesting article on the phenomenal success of the Tokyo Marathon. That success seems partly based on Tokyo Marathon Foundation official Tadaaki Hayano’s...
View ArticleRunning news recap: It’s mud season
If there is such an affliction as “the Albany Blues” then March is when you’re most likely to catch it. It ‘s the month of grey skies and dirty snow, when the ground turns into a toxic swamp of mud,...
View ArticleLadies it’s time to get your game on and join Team Gish!
If you’re not naturally a morning person, don’t worry, neither am I, and neither is Jennifer Gish, a features reporter and sports columnist for the Times Union. Jennifer, or “Jenn” as she is known to...
View Article400-pound Sumo wrestler is heaviest person to ever officially finish a marathon
It took him nine hours, 49 minutes and 52 seconds to do it, but Kelly Gneiting, 40, of Fort Defiance (really) Arizona, crossed the L.A. Marathon finish line in Santa Monica, California, yesterday...
View ArticleSean’s 5K Run/Walk scheduled for May 1
The 10th annual Sean’s 5K Run/Walk event will take place in Chatham on May 1. Promoted as a festive race for a good cause, runners, walkers, and joggers of all ages and abilities are welcome to...
View ArticleKRC Trains for Sean’s Run
This guest post is by Julie Keating, Director of KRC public relations On Saturday, April 9, 25 members of the Kinderhook Runners Club (KRC) took a “road trip” to Chatham to do a practice run of the...
View ArticleKinderhook community gears up for OK5K race
This guest post is by Julie Keating of Kinderhook Runners Club. The promotional poster for the 13th annual OK5k race was presented last month to the race’s major sponsor, Kinderhook Bank. At the same...
View ArticleA contest where everybody wins!
Back in February when runners collectively grumbled about training outdoors on snow-covered sidewalks, in temperatures that never seemed to climb above 10 degrees, Geoff, a frequent commenter on the...
View ArticleBorn to run?
Dr. Daniel Lieberman, an evolutionary biology professor at Harvard, who published a ground-breaking paper in Nature in 2004 asserting that human beings evolved as endurance runners, recently conversed...
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