LEWISTON — A popular Lewiston-Auburn 5K road race series announced Friday it intended to stop using bottled water at its events. The three races, known locally as the Triple Crown, including the YMCA’s Fit Fest 5K on Sunday, will use paper cups to pass out tap water to runners instead of the traditional Poland Spring […]
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Sabattus Rec. to hold Scrabble Scramble
SABATTUS — The Sabattus Rec Club Running Program will hold its first Scrabble Scramble on Saturday, May 21, beginning at 1:30 p.m., at the Pleasant Hill Road ballfields. There will be two events, the first for ages 5-8 and an event for ages 9-12. The younger group will be allowed to have spelling helpers. The […]
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Beach to Beacon: Race continues to draw them in
For some, running the TD Beach to Beacon 10K is about the thrill of competition, both with other runners and with the ticking hands of time. For others, the race is about camaraderie, seeing familiar faces in a familiar — and healthy — setting each August. A select few continue to run the race, first […]
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Are you in? Beach to Beacon 10K fills in record time
For the fourth consecutive year, the TD Beach to Beacon 10K road race in Cape Elizabeth, Maine’s largest road race, filled in record time. Thursday, Cape Elizabeth residents gobbled up the 600 available resident-only slots in the field of more than 6,600. On Friday morning, 4,000 more slots were available to the general public on […]
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TD Beach to Beacon: Elite field takes hits, but still a world-class event
CAPE ELIZABETH — Tragedy and tired legs took a substantial toll at the top of the elite running roster in the week leading up the 18th TD Beach to Beacon 10K road race. Nothing will be different to the naked eye, however, when the crush of competitors leaves the starting line near Crescent Beach State Park on […]
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Lewiston-Auburn half marathon can’t compete with S. Portland Color Run
LEWISTON — A popular Lewiston-Auburn half-marathon will get bumped this year, postponed to 2016 by a bigger South Portland running event. Rachel Desgrosseilliers, executive director of Museum L-A, said organizers had started promoting the 2015 Bands on the Run Half Marathon & 5K, scheduled for June 28. “Last year, they had a big Color Run […]
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In the Crease: Beach to Beacon still the class of road racing
Somewhere between mile marker three and mile marker four, a few layers beneath the bright orange shorts and the copious amount of sweat that started escaping in mile one, I felt my hamstring. It’s an uneasy sensation. When you feel that twinge, your body is trying to tell you to stop whatever you’re doing and […]
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Runners gather for Maine’s largest road race
CAPE ELIZABETH — More than 6,000 runners are expected to take part in the annual TD Beach to Beacon 10K road race. Thousands of spectators are also expected to line the coastal route in Cape Elizabeth on Saturday.The field includes American runners Meb Keflezighi and Shalane Flanagan. Keflezighi in April became the first American male […]