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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…

“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…

Well, UVRC, we did it. We made it through all 479 days of January. I don’t know about you, but last month seemed to move quickly initially, and then ddddddrrrraaaaggggged on for the last week or so. But, alas, I finally turned the page on our calendars, and it’s beginning to show. A few nights ago, my dogs and I finished our walk around 5:30pm, and WE DIDN’T NEED A HEADLAMP. Full disclosure, to the winter haters out there, I am one of those annoying people who gets giddy at every snowfall; fewer things in life make me happier than…