Triangle Running Group

Alex brought to my attention that some users posts were getting flagged as spam. HOW DARE YOU! Just kidding. We have an industrial strength, built-in, spam detection agent which goes through all posts to make sure spam posts aren’t getting on the blog.  Click here for Akismet info if you are interested in the automagic [...]

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Location: Shelley Lake (Sertoma Park Parking Lot) Time: 6:30 AM Miles: 5-10 or more. Terrain: gentle rolling greenway paved paths Weather: Sat. Feb 3 Partly Cloudy 50°/30° 10%chance of rain Directions to Run: Directions (You know where it is) (low res camera phone shot of shelley lake in the summer ripped from the web – [...]

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Well I do not know what made the run at ATT this morning so tough, but I think missing a few friends and laughs did not help. Where was Paul who did every ATT training run with us before OBX. Christophe who was so dedicated that when he had to miss OBX, he ran a [...]

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In the ‘More Geek then Jock’ department, I stumbled upon MotionBased, which is a web based service that you can use in conjunction with a gps device to track your workouts. The web based system takes data from your gps unit (time, distance, water breaks, lollygagging, sprinting, elevation and even heart rate), and allows you [...]

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Location: American Tobacco Trail (Meet at Kroger – Hwy 55 and High House, Cary NC) Time: 6:25 AM – Meet at Kroger parking lot and carpool/caravan in to trailhead. Miles: 5-10 or more. Terrain: Smooth crush & run/sand. Fairly flat – hey a train used to run the route! Weather Forecast: Dark and Cold (feel [...]

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Hi.  I need some advice.  I have this friend who has a problem.  No, not that kind of advice. This post falls under the category:  what the heck would you like to see on this blog?  We have had some good ideas so far.  Another one (I don’t know if its good or not) that [...]

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so if i wasnt cold enough when i got out of the car, 3 or 4 unnecessarily friendly *WET* dogs came running up to us as we gathered in the pre-dawn darkness. im sure they were thinking, ‘hey smootchies, watch this… im gonna run up and act all friendly and then *shake* all over them… [...]

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I thought I would post a couple of links to see if anyone was interested in viewing our runs in Google Earth. If you have Google Earth installed, click here for a sample of what we can do to display our runs. The link will download a .kmz file which shows a path. I just [...]

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Location: Black Creek Greenway to Airport Overlook- Umstead Time: 6:30 AM Miles: 5 – 10 or more. Terrain: Mostly flat hard-packed dirt and asphalt. Weather Forecast: Mostly cloudy. Hi: low 40s. Lo: high 20s. Directions to Run Start: Take the Harrison Ave exit (#287) off I-40 and head toward Weston Parkway/SAS/Cary (instead of entrance to [...]

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March 3/31 Azelea Festival Tri in Wilmington – currently closed Registered: Christophe, Jon, Alex, Rama 3/31 Cooper Bridge Run in Charleston, SC April 4/28 Riverwood Golf and Athletic Club Triathlon – Clayton, NC Registered: Karen, Kendal, Alex, Rama May (no events yet) June 6/3 Kerr Lake Triathlon – Henderson, NC Registered: Karen, Alex, Rama June [...]

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first of all, many thanks to alex hagan for inviting me to get out of bed at 5:55AM and go screaming through umstead park in pre-dawn january darkness on a saturday morning with a group of hard-core yet completely laid back running machines. my first run was also christophe pla’s last – as christophe and [...]

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The Mitterling Milers – coined from John Mitterling of YMCA fame – who founded the running group. Below is a brief interview of some of the regulars: Karen, Kendal and Alex – after our Bridge to Nowhere to Airport Overlook run on January 20th 2007. If you decide to join a run with the group, [...]

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