My Saturday Unplugged - Dan Mahoney

As we are all still trying to digest the horrific atrocities that occurred at the Boston Marathon this year, I wanted to share an experience I had just two days before this all occurred. I decided to give back and get some extra credit in the good karma bank by volunteering for bike patrol for the RunVermont Half Marathon Unplugged.

The Unplugged is a training race for a lot of runners for the Keybank Vermont City Marathon. It starts in Airport Park in Colchester and snakes through a few neighborhoods and cul-de-sacs before entering the Island Line…

Running my First 5K – Tales of the Stroller Division - Dan Mahoney

As I get ready to run my first Vermont City Marathon relay race this spring, I've been reminiscing about a race I did in Farmington, Maine, back in November. I know, slightly delayed, but I had to take an unforeseen sabbatical this winter. So here I am with an update.

A good friend of ours, Tricia Cote, had informed us of a 5K in Farmington, Maine that she was organizing. It would benefit the New England Lung Cancer Project, a non-profit Trish founded a few years back. If you have not heard of them you should…

Active Summer, Active School Year - The Valentine Family

Gone are the lazy, relaxed, and unstructured days of summer. Along with the return to cooler weather, we’ve returned to the busy school year schedule. What does that mean for the typical “active family?”

Well, I don’t know if we qualify as typical, but I can tell you about our experiences. One would think we’d be much more active in the summer, and in some ways that can be true. If you look at one day, or one weekend, or one week, yes, we tend to do a lot…

iRun with Map My Run - Sky Barsch

One of Vermont Sports Magazine's Get Out bloggers, Greg Rems, wrote a post a few weeks back about using technology with your training. Since then, I’ve downloaded the Map My Run app on my iPhone, and this spring I’ve been using it to track my runs, bikes, and hikes.

Like Greg, I’ve noticed that I have fallen into the trap of needing to see my workout on a computer screen to “believe” that I did it. Before I indulge in some nachos, I open Map My Run (which…

Adaptation - Jane Lazorchak

In nature, plants and animals must adapt to survive. This year, with the mild winter and early arrival of spring, this seems evident all around us with the sounds of spring peepers around my house earlier than I can ever remember, woodcocks calling in the night in March, and the red maples turning the hillsides red with flowers when they are usually still white with snow. Plants and animals adapt or else they go extinct. As humans, we adapt too, and over the past year I have learned that firsthand.Every spring I eagerly check the weather forecast to…