Category Archives: running

Statement from Thomas Grilk, BAA Executive Director

By Steve | Published: April 16, 2013
We want to express our deepest gratitude to all of the B.A.A. medical personnel and volunteers and the City of Boston's first responders who reacted so courageously to help save lives. Special thanks to the loyal Boston Marathon community - over 8500 volunteers, 1000 medical personnel, the organizing committee, and hundreds of thousands along the race route - who make the experience what it is for all our runners, who are hurting today.
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Two Oceans Ultra Marathon – Part 5 Race Day

By Steve | Published: April 3, 2013
As expected, I didn't sleep all that well on Friday night. But I am quite accustomed to not sleeping the night before a race and try to make sure I have some extra rest hours in the bank the couple of days leading up to race day. We all started to congregate in the living room area of the guest house by 4:45. Our wonderful guest house proprietors, Tonia and Paul had the coffee on and pre bagged breakfast to go ready for everyone. Love those guys.
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Two Oceans Ultra Marathon – Part 4

By Steve | Published: April 3, 2013
Had a pretty good in flight lunch of tortellini . At least I guess it was lunch. Then settled in and watched Lincoln on my little monitor. Good flick. Really liked it for sure. Also finished another couple of chapters of Dean Karnazes' book "run". Five hours in and I was still feeling great. Oh! Nicole Delma to the rescue with Oreos ! Thanks Cole. It's funny because all the shades are drawn so it feels like the middle of the night. In reality it is 4:30 est but 10:30 Cape Town time. But I figured it was happy hour somewhere and declared it time for a beer.
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Two Oceans Ultra Marathon – Part 3

By Steve | Published: March 25, 2013
So folks... the time has nearly come. Chances are the next time you hear from me will be from South Africa as I am being picked up tomorrow morning at 4:30 AM to be whisked off to JFK airport in NYC. I want to think everything is done. I haven't actually packed everything into bags yet, but that's my job today. I need to make another quick run to the store (drive that is) and then I can pack up. And I think once that is done, I will feel really "ready". I did just check in online though and printed my boarding pass so mark that off the to do list.
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Two Oceans Ultra Marathon – Part 2

By Steve | Published: March 17, 2013
My last long run is done. I don't know if my training formula was perfect but I don't think it was a bad one. My rationale is this; I have "faked" my way through many marathons with much less training than I have put into this effort. So.... I would consider myself in pretty good marathon shape.
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Two Oceans Ultra Marathon – Part 1

By Steve | Published: March 6, 2013
In 2012 I felt like my race calendar was getting a little stagnant. I still loved what I was doing but some of the races I was doing were starting to feel like just another day at the office. I have raced 11 ironman triathlons and 20 marathons and God knows how many shorter course events – and I love those distances and races. But I was searching for something different, or bigger, or just “more”.
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Happiness Is…

By Steve | Published: February 25, 2013
I am happy to report that I had an oncology follow up appointment this past Friday....
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South Africa, Two Oceans Interview

By Steve | Published: February 19, 2013
I was recently contacted by Kolosa Vuso with the South African marketing firm Tenfour Media to answer a few questions regarding my participation in the upcoming Two Oceans Ultra Marathon in Cape Town South Africa.  The timing was quite ironic because I was just starting to contemplate a blog post on this very topic. I’m not [...]
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Welcome Nathan Sports

By Steve | Published: February 13, 2013
I want to both welcome and thank Nathan Sports for their support of Grassroot Soccer and the Two Oceans Grassroot Soccer Ultra Marathon team. I am looking forward to a great relationship with this outstanding organization.
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Brad Schoener 5K & Music Marathon Registration Now OPEN

By Steve | Published: February 9, 2013
Online registration for the 5th annual Brad Schoener Memorial 5K and Music Marathon is now open. Visit www.runtheday.com to register or www.udmusicmarathon.org for more information.
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