Sacramento Running News

Your memory is unreliable.

Remember how awful your last terrible marathon was?

Remember how bad you felt at 25 miles, when you swore you’d never do another one?

Then why do you find yourself, a month or two later (or less), looking for another one to sign up for?

It turns out that your memory for how well you remember how bad you felt is pretty terrible.

It’s probably the same reason some women have more than one baby.

In a recent study,  marathon finishers were interviewed immediately following a race and again three or six months later.

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Rich Hanna running alone on the Gold Rush trail. (Photo courtesy Sean Dulany Freeplay Magazine)

By John Schumacher

Rich Hanna overcame a nasty fall to run away with the men’s title and Tracy Hoeg delivered a winning move along the second half of the course to win the women’s race Saturday in the Gold Rush 50k.

Hanna, a longtime race director and coach from Sacramento, finished the 31-mile course from Cronan Ranch Regional Trails Park in Pilot Hill to historic Folsom in an event record 3 hours, 52 minutes and 58 seconds.

Sacramento’s Matt Bachman finished second in 4:05:02, with Sacramento’s Rasmus Hoeg grabbing third in 4:14:48.

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New questions have emerged regarding the Boston Marathon Dad who famously and publicly scolded his kids’ school principal over a letter concerning their absence from school so they could watch him run.

Apparently, his qualifying run at the Lehigh Valley Marathon was a bit of an outlier compared to all his other race results listed on results aggregator Athlinks, and the only photo of him from that race was taken as he crossed the finish line. (As is typical in a marathon, there were numerous photographers along the course and there are multiple photos of most other runners at different points along the race.)

Naturally, the sleuths at Letsrun are on the case!

Read more at Phillymag.com, who has been closely monitoring this important story.

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