Just Brenn and Joe, talking about Brooklyn (Brenn) and Mary Cain (Joe).

Also a brief solo thing, Ep. 120.

Joe, joined by Mark, with some final thoughts on Boston.

We recorded after the explosions at the Boston Marathon. We spoke of it with Brenn, Gregg, Steve, Mark, and Amy.

And apropos to some of what we discussed, Mark forwarded this article from Ken Benson at the Times: Security Experts Ponder Whether Any Long Race Can Be Completely Safe

There’s been talk about this new Cloud259 podcast, so Joe, Brenn, and Gregg decided to turn the tables on, well, Brenn and Gregg, and ask them about their show.

It was just Joe today, and he rambled on about a few things.

• The New York Times article on NYRR.
• The VCTC’s Urban Environmental Challenge, on April 7
• The Scarsdale 15K/4 miler, also on April 7
• Taconic Road Runners‘ site.

The North Brooklyn Runners had a mile race, and we spoke of it, and of racing the mile on the track.

Amy, Steve, Joe.

Amy spoke of her indoor triathlon experience, sponsored by Jack Rabbit Sports. Results not yet up. 10-minute swim, 30-minute ride, 20-minute run.

Steve had comments about his junket to Savannah for a Running USA conference.

Joe mentioned the fine third episode of Cloud259.com with an interview with Ulrich Fluhme and a discussion of drugs and drug-testing.

Steve mentioned seeing Mary Cain at Millrose. Joe offers the following video from her freshman year, when she still ran for Bronxville HS, in this case on its 4 X 800 relay at the national championships (advance to 6:40):

First we spoke about our friend Paul Thompson, one of the area’s top runners who was training for London, but who suffered an injury-of-an-unknown-nature and is now planning on skipping it. His blog entry.

A bit of comment about the NYCRuns Central Park Half and full marathons (marathon results), with a fine pre-race article in Bloomberg.

Then a review of the first two and preview of the next episode of the show recently started by Brenn and Gregg, 259Cloud.

Following up on Brenn’s (and Gregg’s) initial podcast on Cloud259.com, [LISTEN] we spoke about the marathon a why, given the growth of the event, there seems be fewer sub-2:30 men than there used to be. Is there a cap on how fast a good athlete who doesn’t run track but plays, say, soccer or lacrosse in high school can run a marathon? We don’t know.

And Brenn spoke of the upcoming Millrose Gamers. Verdict: the move to the Armory seems to be working. And there may be a nice upswing in indoor track after the doldrums of not-so-many-years ago.

Finally, Steve spoke of the first of NYCRuns Club-Challenge Races, held today in Prospect Park.

Brenn and Joe. Brenn spoke of the new project that he and Gregg are working on, a website called Cloud259.com. They hope to launch in a few weeks. We’ll keep you posted.

And there was talk about blogging in general and some specifics from Joe.