he second Sunday of April and the Doyle’s 5 miler is always a welcome sign that spring is here. The race starts late enough that runners can get a good night’s sleep, and the weather is suddenly sunny and 60 degrees, leaving the...
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What happens when things don’t go according to plan…
By Katie Merrill, FHR member since 2013, sometimes successful amateur racer If you’ve been running or racing long enough, you’re bound to have a race where things don’t exactly go according to plan. You train for weeks, months, sometimes the...
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The Vermont City Marathon: a change of pace
by Pete Cannon, Wednesday Night run leader and badass finisher of the 2016 Vermont City Marathon It was pretty easy to tell we were out of the Boston area by the sunset mountain vista at the I-89 rest area just before the Vermont border. If the...
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The Baystate Marathon 2015 Race Recap!
By Katie Merrill, FHR member since 2013, who swore she’d never run another marathon… My alarm sounded at 5am. I didn’t need it though, since I’d already been up for 45 minutes. Thinking about the day ahead as I lay in bed in the...
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from tri-curious to tri-crazy: my first 70.3 ironman
In August of 2013 I decided that my goal for the proceeding year would be to complete a triathlon; specifically, I wanted to race the Boston Triathlon–a sprint distance tri (.5 mile swim, 9 mile ride, 4.4 mile run). There was only one...
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1 race, 7 runners, 7 PR’s
On April 26th, 2015 seven members of Forest Hills Runners competed in the Cambridge Spring Classic 5k. It is not uncommon for a few members to surpass their personal record, or PR, but what made this race extraordinary is that all seven Forest...
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