Tag: Grandma's Marathon
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Can Running Reduce My Risk of Dementia?
I have almost reached the start of my 66th year and am, as far as I know, in excellent health. This puts me at high risk of living far into the age ranges in which a terrifying percentage of people develop dementia (pathologic cognitive decline severe enough to interfere with daily life). I have a…
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Race Day, Grandma’s Marathon 2021. (Sadly for me, I was not able to run.)
Three weeks before the race I suffered hamstring re-injury about seven miles into a Saturday morning group run. Same body parts I injured in March, but this time I am having a much harder time coming back. I stopped running that morning as soon as I figured out that I had hurt myself. The organizer,…
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Will Grandma’s Marathon 2021 be a major thermoregulatory challenge (too hot), or will it be a dream?
An important part of what has attracted so many runners to Grandma’s Marathon from far away probably is the hope that it will have reasonably cool temperatures even though it takes place only a couple of days before the summer solstice. Another important factor is probably that that course is relatively flat – total elevation…
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The number one reason I run: The experiences of “awe” it enables.
I have read that study of the emotion called “awe” has become a hot topic these days, at least among people who study emotions (who knew there are “scholars of awe?”). Do a Google search on “awe” (or “awe walks”) and you will find numerous articles like one by Emma Stone, PhD, “The Emerging Science…
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Finally, maybe, I hope, mostly recovered from a hamstring injury.
It happened two months ago running on a beautiful, sunny Saturday morning, March 13th. As more evidence of the unluckiness of the number 13, my route was a 13-mile “out-and-back.” I felt great and was running faster and faster on the mostly downhill “back” portion. I do not recall a specific bad event, just that…
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How much of a factor is aging in marathon performance?
More familiarity with the age-adjustment calculation might be extremely helpful for improving the perspective of many older runners. In this post I apply the “Age Standard Times” from USA Track & Field (USATF) to some Grandma’s marathon results. A lot of different aspects of human performance have clear patterns of change with aging. For example,…
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% of Grandma’s Marathon runners old enough to be Grandmas (or -pas) has been increasing
Friday was a happy one for Happy Aging Runner. Friday, I got the COVID-19 vaccine (the one-shot, Johnson & Johnson version)! Woo-hoo! This makes the idea of being a visitor to Duluth for the June 2021 Grandma’s participant no longer seem so personally reckless! I celebrated by getting back to trying to learn how to…
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Grandma’s Marathon in-person June 2021: Registered and hoping!
The in-person Grandmas Marathon (Duluth, Minnesota) is scheduled for June 21, 2021. Whether the event happens, of course, depends on public health assessments. I’m registered, hoping it takes place, and hoping I’m one of the in-person persons! I’m starting this blog to share the experience of training for this event and, if it happens and…
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