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The Winds of Change
UVRC Runners, This offering is a sampling from a fictional novel I am in the process of writing entitled, The Winds of Change. It’s a story about running for runners. Below, I have included the drafts of the Prologue and the first two chapters entitled, 1. El Amuleto and 2. A Sacred Place. In the story, runners from the Upper Valley and Puerto Rico converge to run the Vermont 100 Ultramarathon in 2025. It’s a tale about, endurance, resilience and persistence, but also about temptation, greed and loss. I am happy to share more chapters during the next five months…
Reading while Running: Book Recommendations
There is no competition. The greatest running book of all time is “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen” by Christopher McDougall. Isolated by Mexico’s deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their secrets. In the process, he takes his readers from science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultra-runners are pushing…
Race Report: Boston Prep 16 Miler
“Here we, in our impatience of the steps, Get back to the beginning of beginnings, The stream of everything that runs away.” -Robert Frost, “West Running Brook” One of Robert Frost’s most complicated poems (and title of his 5th anthology of poetry) is West Running Brook. It is a poem inspired by West Running Brook in Derry, NH near where Frost lived for a little over 11 years in a very productive time of his post-college days with his young family (he later moved back to NH in Franconia but he moved around a lot). The “running” in the title…