Please be sure to check this very informative video showing one of my chiropractic adjustments with Dr. Bigelow. He has been taking care of me throughout this 2 month event. Thanks to the professional care of Dr. Brian Bigelow twice a week, I have been able to recover in a very short amount of time and to stay injury free during this grueling test that combines speed and strength. Feel free to pose any questions to him about chiropractic care via this website.

We travel to Concord, NH on Wednesday for Race #22. It will be the 4th Capitol race in our series of New England capital cities.

I had a difficult time actually getting to the race on time as I sat on 95 South for two hours with very little movement. The reason for the heavy traffic (standstill) I found out later was due the Kenny Chesney concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA. I showed up 30 minutes before the race was to begin. Fortunately, Charlie Olbrias from The Last Mile Racing Management Company was there early and measured two different mile courses for me to race. I wanted to run the first mile with everyone else, but since I could not warm up in time, Charlie had the third mile wheeled out in advance. Charlie was the saviour of the day.

Due to the resourcefulness of The Last Mile Racing Management, I was able to jog out to mile 3 and race the third mile. After a 5 hour car ride, I was very stiff, but managed to run a 4:58.58 mile.

Next stop on our New England tour is Hollis, NH for The Bigelow Chiropractic Mile. Race #21 is Monday evening. I will be doing 5 races in 9 days…

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An avid follower of www.OneMileRunner.com, Spring Cole, came to watch the race and drive the lead vehicle for protection. Spring is a wonderful woman who is enthusiastic about improving her running and fitness in her mid-forties. I had to an opportunity to work on her sprinting and running technique before my race. Spring is a great example of an individual trying to improve on a daily basis.

Race #19 against the clock was not easy. I had trouble with tightness in my hips, but managed to run a 4:51.65 with a lot of hard work. My massage therapist told me today that she has not seen me this “bad” before. She found tightness throughout my hamstrings, quads, and lower back. I guess after racing this much that I knew this level of breakdown was inevitable, but there is another race on Saturday afternoon that is #20 on our list to prepare for…the Bobby Doyle Summer Classic in Narragansett, RI www.bobbydoylesummerclassic.org.

Hope to see you on Saturday for my final race in Rhode Island!

Check out this video about the value of a hot rock massage. You might just recover better than ever…

Jacqueline has been so supportive of me over the years. She has helped me with my mental preparation for many of my events.

Here is an interview that we did together about the rigors of our event and how we manage the mental side for peak performance.

I might have been excited to run The Beach to Beacon or The D.A.R.E. Classic on the Loudon Speedway, but Charlie Olbrias, the President of The Last Mile Racing, was pumped up about this course. He found this route that had me starting in Douglas, MA going through Thompson, CT and then finishing in Douglas, MA again. Cool course on a humid evening. I ran my quickest time of the event at 4:40.39.

Here is a couple of photos of Charlie and I showing how this granite stone marks the change of the state line. On one side it is Connecticut and on the other side, it is Massachusetts.

After watching the video of me struggling in the wind at The Loudon Speedway, I realized that I was shortening my stride length. I felt good on Saturday in Race #17 in Providence, RI running 4:49 and then even better tonight  at 4:40. The stride length now is my natural length and the extra extension makes me quicker.

On Wednesday, we run the Sprint For Judy in Woodstock, CT and then on Saturday I run one of the miles at the Bobby Doyle Summer Classic www.bobbydoylesummerclassic.org in Narragansett, RI. Should be a lot of fun!

Here is a photo with Charlie Olbrias, from the Last Mile Racing Company, a color guard who performed before the 1 mile race, and Race Director, Maureen Steer who did a fabulous job along with the other NH State Police Officers.

We are going to publish another video this weekend of all the sights, sounds, and stories of this race, but first we will show the video of the one mile race. The rain held off, but not the wind as I struggled on the back stretch. I ran a 4:57.99 with a surge at the finish. I had an old friend, Jim Farrelly, at the wheel of the pace car along with Charlie Olbrias timing and my brother Brian filming in the back. Please check out this very cool setting for the mile race…

We run in Providence, RI on Saturday morning for our 3rd of the Capitol series.