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Rolling Stone justification? It doesn’t exist

Running for Boston shirt

In the past couple of days I have tried to remain opinion-less of the Rolling Stone cover with one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, but I just can’t. Especially after some people are trying to defend it directly to me. Let me give you some perspective on why I am outraged at this cover. [...]

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Epic? I’m going there

Run for Boston, #runforboston

The Foot Levelers Blue Ridge Marathon weekend can be summed up in one word: epic. I hope you know that “epic” has never been used to describe any event from me. I did use it in a post a couple of weeks ago when I hinted at what I was going to do at the [...]

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Stronger.

2013 Blue Ridge Half Marathon medal

There are so many things that have happened in the past few days that have completely changed my view of running. Race weekend in Roanoke, Va., for the Blue Ridge Marathon is full of amazing stories — the support for Boston by everyone, grabbing a photo with Bart Yasso, Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers, meeting [...]

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26.2 for Boston

Blue Ridge Marathon Running for Boston

I feel obligated to run. Just go out the door and run. Then it hit me today. I wanted to join the Run 26.2 for Boston event on Facebook and hit 26.2 miles for the week when I cross the finish line of Saturday’s Blue Ridge Half Marathon. No matter where you are or how [...]

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