Race #64 – Hendrick Marrow Program Half Marathon – Concord NC – 11/22/09
This was the inaugural running of the Hendrick Marrow Program Half Marathon held at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. The field of runners was small, probably 50 or 60 runners for each race (half marathon and 5k). As we lined up to run, the race director told us that they purposely didn’t advertise the race because it was the first one and they wanted to iron out all the kinks, so we were

Race #63 – Santa Scramble – Concord, NC – 11/21/09
I won’t say I told you so, but I did tell you: this is the fastest 5k race in the area. I of course was relying on my old fogged-up memory of running it last year but that was the way I remembered it. Today as our GPS system took us right down the course I was able to get a new look at it, and it wasn’t quite as downhill as I remembered although the trend was definitely more down

This Weekend: The Fastest 5k of the Year!
With more than 15,000 spectators along the way, it’s not only the fastest 5k of the year in the Charlotte area but it’s also one of the most fun. The Santa Scramble is the first entry in the Concord Christmas parade this Saturday afternoon (November 21, 2009) and the streets are lined with people along the parade route. What makes it so fast is not that it’s flat — it’s not — if you w

Race #62 – Spencer Mountain 10-Miler – Gastonia, NC – 11/14/09
The weather couldn’t have been more beautiful for the annual Spencer Mountain 10-Miler, a race I’ve heard referred to as “The Southeast’s Toughest 10-Miler.” I can’t say whether that’s true or not, but there are definitely some mean hills out there. The race begins and ends at Warlick Elementary School in the town of Ranlo (just east of Gastonia),

Please Update Your Links to the Old Runner Blog!
After a couple weeks of indecision on my part about whether I should actually move the Old Runner blog to WordPress or stay at Blogspot I’ve finally decided that I’ll be sticking with the new WordPress blog. Instead of both blogs being available as they have been while I was testing things out, now the Blogspot blog has been completely deleted so it is no longer available, so now any link that cont