Posts by brian
Your People
In 2020, humans have collectively been forced to deal with some particularly tough truths about how we interact. The focus here is on how we interact with each other, as runners. If the quarantine life of 2020 has taught most of us anything it is that we rely on each other as people. Maybe more…
Read MoreThe race or something else
Adapted from simplesoleproject.com I started this post weeks ago, like in January. With many, if not all, events being cancelled right now I don’t have much advice for you. But here are my thoughts anyways I like racing. I love running. There. It’s out there. I am not a natural born racer. Don’t get me wrong. I really do enjoy the energy of any start line, big or small. The potential out there. The goals set. The dreams. The community. Man, it is awesome. You can’t…
Read MoreGet it done
Many of us were greeted by the reality of Nebraska winter as we stepped out the door for weekend miles the last few days. Been lucky so far this season, but you saw single digits on your weather app, negative windchills. Seeing it on the phone is one thing. Feeling it on your face and…
Read MoreThe Nature of Things
If your email inbox or social media pages are anything like mine you are being inundated with various “best of” lists. Most read articles, most liked photos, best stories, etc, etc, etc. This is all amplified by the end of the decade. Glancing through some of these (thanks to slightly more time with winter break)…
Read MoreUSATF Club Cross 2019- Worth the Trip
Classic cross country conditions on a (developing) classic course greeted the women and men from LRC-Nebraska in Lehigh, Pennsylvania. Wet, soggy, and soft were descriptions heard from team mates as they did their course preview. In what has become one of the focal points of the team’s competitive year, we have now sent a squad…
Read MoreFor the team
As individual as an activity that running is, nothing can push you to greater efforts than competing for a teammate. Warming up together, sharing in the start line jitters, the settling into the race, the point where your effort starts knocking on the door of “why I am doing this?”, to the post race laughter…
Read MoreThe Team
Runners like to claim some sort of poetic license to solitude. Out there on the roads and trails in the pre dawn light. Breath disappearing in a cloud as the pace drops. Those first beads of sweat on your neck at the hairline. That last shakeout run before a big race. Maybe the first split…
Read MoreBuffalo Run 2019
Mary Noel to her second win three years An atypically cloudy morning greeted runners today at Pioneers Park. It was however a typical high humidity race. Lots of sweat dripping down coming through the hardest mile in Lincoln road racing. Competitors of all sorts showed up in great numbers for Lincoln’s oldest road race. This…
Read More2019 Lincoln Running Company Mile
PC: Tracy Hoffman Our team name sake race was on Sunday morning. The 28th Annual Lincoln Running Company Mile had record turnout and one of the deepest fields in a long time. Featuring the men’s and women’s elite races, age/gender based heats went off every 15 minutes starting at 8am. Runners enjoyed the relatively cool…
Read MoreLRC-N Ladies Throwing It Down in Moab
Taking advantage of some great desert air and some incredible scenery Bridget Easley, Michelle Paxton, and Amy McCracken went out to Utah for the all ladies Thelma and Louise Half Marathon. Running parallel to the Colorado River among the red canyon walls they went 1-2-3 finishing in the order above. According to UltraSignUp, their times…
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