Goodbye Watch, Hello Better
On President’s Day I competed in a historic road race in Honolulu, Hawaii. There were plenty of people shopping, laying on the beach, and enjoying the late night scene. There were also more than 20,000 people there on Monday morning to run from the Great Aloha Tower to the Hawaii football stadium 8.29 miles away. The race distance is listed on the website as 8.15 miles, but the guy who measured the course claimed it’s 8.29. Since the distance is not a PR course, I brought up the idea of racing without a watch to my coach Steve Jones. He was all for it and recommended...
read moreGoodbye Limits, Hello Better!
Hello world! It gives me great pleasure to write my first blog post for Team Alchemy, sponsored by Newton Running. I’m Tyler McCandless, a PhD student, a coach, and a runner trying to run as fast as I can! Let me spend the first blog post and introduce myself and my goals. “Well I was born in a small town” called Northampton in eastern Pennsylvania and attended college at Penn State University. After graduating with both a BS and a MS in meteorology and earning NCAA All-American honors in the 10,000m run in spring of 2010, I moved to Boulder, Colorado to train with other...
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