Registration is now open for the Run 4 Cole 5K Road Race. The Run 4 Cole will take place on April 7, 2013 in Clinton, Massachusetts. Information about the race can be found by clicking here.

The Run 4 Cole benefits the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress. To find out more about the run and the charity, please the Run 4 Cole website by clicking here. You can also like Run 4 Cole on Facebook by clicking here.

Registration is now open for the West Island 5K Race and this is one race you definitely do not want to miss out on! Join The Running Griffin on April 28th in Fairhaven, Massachusetts for this race that takes runners through the scenic West Island part of Fairhaven.

The race is billed as being a mostly flat race but starts off with a good downhill sprint and ends with an uphill finish. Be sure to keep plenty of energy in your legs as you head into the final stretch so you can kick it into the finish line and get up that hill.

Proceeds from this road race go to the Fairhaven High School Cross Country program and the Crispin Demers Memorial Scholarship Fund. Crispin Demers was a Fairhaven High School alum and former cross country coach who recently lost a long battle with cancer and the scholarship was formed in his memory.

The New Bedford Guide wrote an article on the West Island 5K Race which you can read by clicking here.

To register for the West Island 5K race, please click here. Additionally, please like the race’s Facebook page by clicking here.

Though I was scheduled to run a ten mile road race today, snow and whipping winds caused the race to be wisely postponed. With such weather bearing down for the second weekend in a row, it would have been really easy to brew another coffee and hunker down with flannel pants and make a big old breakfast to chow down on however I made a wiser decision and headed downstairs and hit the treadmill for a ten mile run.

I usually despise running on the treadmill however there was no option but to suck it up and use it this morning as the conditions were too dangerous to run in. Running on a treadmill is never as good as hitting the pavement however at the end of the ten miles there was a certain sense of satisfaction with completing the run that really felt good. When I Tweeted out about the ten mile run being complete, the Buffalo Marathon account replied to the Tweet applauding the efforts and noting that “Ten miles on the treadmill is better than no miles at all.” Some really good advice for when you dread hopping on the treadmill to get your miles in!