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
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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
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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
Read moreThe 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
Read morefrom 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
Read more1 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,
Read moreRace Recap: Doyle’s 5 Miler
By Katie Merrill, FHR member since 2013, racer, lover of nice weather. Yesterday morning I raced the Doyle’s 5 Miler with my Forest Hills Runners crew. It was an absolutely
Read moreA Year in the Life of a Runner
by Dave Moyer 2014. What a year that was. I was adjusting my first real world job, picking up life in a big city (which I never thought would happen),
Read moreThe Power of the Race
by Lauren Kaskey I trained for the 2014 Boston Marathon with FHR, but also with my mentor and friend, who was running for a different charity. Although she lives across
Read moreBecoming an Ironman
by Kyle Jones Ironman – No, not the brash, super-genius Marvel character played by Robert Downey Jr, but the endurance triathlon event encompassing 140.6 miles of swimming, biking, and running.
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