A Few Thoughts on Middle School Cross Country Jay Wallace, The Leon County middle school cross country season is a mere four meets in the hot month of September. Like so many things in a busy school year, it seems to come and go in a blur. I want to...
DFL: Mike the Dog 50k/Marathon/1/2 Marathon Mike Baker, I have signed up for the Mike the Dog Marathon and 50k, every year Dana Stetson’s held the race and slept in almost every single time. That’s a lie. I wake up Sunday morning and consider...
Training for StupidThe Long Cane 50k/55 Miler – Parson’s Mountain, Abbeville, SC Mike Baker, Some races are wrapped in a story. Some races are more like real life. The night before the race, the race director Terri Hayes, her grandson and his...
The Prez Sez – Help wanted! Felton Wright, I have been thinking about how far we have come with race timing. The Olympics have always had the best timing systems of the day. The1952 Olympics were the first to use the Omega time recorder, which was the...
Hot to Trot 8 Hour Fun Run and how it got that way Mike Baker, Last weekend I ran the Hot to Trot. The race is run on an arbitrary 1.189 mile loop at Sweetwater State Park in Lithia Springs, Georgia. A friend told me, the first time we drove up to race...
