features departments 14 calendar

Contents
FEATURES
42 Like Mother,
Like Daughter
7 Running Vignettes from New
England & New York
by Jean Cann, Bob Fitzgerald,
Nate Getman, Maggie Mullins
and Emily Raymond
DEPARTMENTS
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Editor’s Letter
4
Letters from Readers
50 The New Culture of
Capability
Opportunity, Role Models &
Inspired Community
by Kathrine Switzer
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CALENDAR
Intervals
NER World Exclusive, The
Untold Story; Hurdling
Childhood Obesity; Race Lottery
Larceny? NY Marathon Great
Peterson Gone Too Soon…
35 Club Notes
Blizzard Yearning Yet?
by Lonny Townley
SPOTLIGHTS ON…
37 Reebok One/ZAP Fitness
Coach’s Corner
52 Pub Prodigy Liam’s
Serves Up Surf and Suds
38 Nutrition
by Bob Fitzgerald
58 Forty Years Later & Still
Electric
The Pre Classic in Track Town,
USA by Jack Welch
ON SITE AT…
55 The People’s United Bank
Vermont City Marathon/
USATF-NE GP
by Bob Fitzgerald
People’s United Bank Vermont City Marathon
runner-up Blake Teal turns away from Lake
Champlain and the Adirondacks as he follows the
boardwalk leading to the finish in Burlington’s
Waterfront Park.
Photo by FitzFoto/NERunner
A Practical Guide to Goal Setting
by Pete Rea
Carbs Are King! by Nancy Clark
39 From the Director’s Chair
“The Power of the Spectators”
by Dave McGillivray
40 My Word
Get the Silliness Back into Sport
by Tom Derderian
60 Running Around the
World
Ottawa 10K Gold Rush; The
Prague Marathon…Running
Along the Vltava River with
Franz Kafka, by Paul Josephson;
London Calling, by Karen
Bertasso
64 Gilligan’s Travels
Running Across Tuscany
by Thom Gilligan
66 Track Tidings
HOKA Highlights; NH’s True
Wins Golden League 5,000;
adidas HS Dream Mile; D1, D2,
D3 NCAAs; HS New Englands,
NY State, Penn Relays
72 Race Results
The Season Finally Gets
Underway; 7-State Recap; plus
Faces at Races, Performance of
the Month, Athletes of the Month
ABOUT THE COVER: A national titlist while running for
Fayetville-Manlius HS, Fayetville, NY’s Mackenzie Carter is
captured against the mountains of Montana in a photograph
taken by her mother, Marnie, while on a road trip to the U. of
Washington during Mackenzie’s junior year there.
Cover photo by Marnie Carter
New England Runner, July/August 2015
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