Local races challenge runners By Gary Droze Runners new to Tallahassee quickly discover its treasures for training: the city itself is peppered with soft-surfaced tracks, and wooded trails await just minutes from the Capitol, in all four directions. But what good is...
10 Reasons By Jane Johnson Because … we have treasures like Peg and Gary Griffin, who put their hearts and souls into making the Tallahassee Marathon (and everything else they do) a first class event for the club, for every participant and every...
Examine all options for weak points By Fred Deckert You remember Oliver Wendell Holmes’s “The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay”? This was the poem/story of a carriage that was built to last forever. All the failure prone parts were especially strengthened...
Introducing speed to your workouts By Dana Stetson Ray Krolewicz said it best. He said Ultra runner’s need speedwork to run ultras like chess players need weight lifting to play chess. Most long distance runners, today, seem to agree with this philosophy.This is...
By Nick Yonclas It had rained all night, and it was still raining hard at 8 a.m., the start time for the Red Pepper 5K Run at St. George Island on March 2, 2002. The tents set up for the 20th Annual Chili Cookoff had blown down during the night, and there was an inch...
