Bill's Running Shoes

These are difficult times, particularly for those directly affected by the cruelty and stupidity emanating daily from what should be the Peo...

That’s what one of the race officials next to the finish line said to me. I was just finishing—finally—the first of two 16-mile loops of t...

The running club  at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center sponsors a semiannual 2 mile “fun run.” In my many years there, I’d run most of th...

On the train to the start of the Jim Thorpe Marathon in April, I saw the 4:15 pacer in the same car as mine, and I was thinking, I’m going t...

I passed the drummers near the crest of Diamond Head Rd just south of the Diamond Head State Monument around Mile 8 (also Mile 24.5) of last...

Or, rather, seemingly go by faster. Last week, one of my morning runs was “easy-steady and finishing with 4x5 sets of 10 sec strides.” For...

My aha moment came, naturally, during a long run: From a Tai Ji Quan (Tai Chi Chuan)  perspective, why elites run the way they do all makes ...

  On the shuttle bus to the starting line of the recent Wineglass Marathon (Corning, NY), I said to the guy sitting next to me that this was...