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A New Record – 55.89 Miles on New Year’s Eve
January 1, 2012 by Mitch Lewis · 1 Comment
I wasn’t having any fun. Seven hours into the race and I had already run about 35 miles, but there were over five hours to go and I was cramping. My legs were dead, it was getting cold, my stomach wanted to heave, and I was wondering what the hell I was doing running when [...]
JiaYou!
December 19, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · 3 Comments
For a moment I got to feel what it is like to be a celebrity. We were surrounded by dozens of fans, pushing their pens on us as we signed shirts, programs and flags. Two tall – and one not so tall – white guys in Hainan Province in China who had just finished running [...]
Marathon History
December 12, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
From the “Introduction of Marathon” for the Hainan China Marathon on 12/17/11 … Courtesy of http://www.hndzmarathon.org/en/intro_marathon.jsp “The Marathon as we know it today is little more than 100 years old, but there have been forms of long distance races since the time of the ancient Egyptians. The Marathon has been an Olympic distance since the [...]
Ten Years (and counting)
December 12, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · 1 Comment
My legs were cramping and I had two immense blister clusters on each foot. The stomach wasn’t great and I had not done nearly enough training miles. I felt a lot of internal pressure to at least finish the Tucson Marathon since this would be 10 consecutive years of starting and finishing at least one [...]
