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It’s Saturday, April 25. I’ve walked from the train station to my hotel and find a line of German tour buses. That was my first indication that Altötting is a pilgrimage town, many people likely here for the weekend. The second indication is the number of priests and nuns walking about the square and in the several churches on the square, in much greater number than in either Melk Abbey or…

It’s April 24th, the fourth day of Maria Antonia’s journey enroute to marry the French dauphin, Louis XVI. Did the future Marie Antoinette spend the night in Braunau am Inn? Some sources say yes, others say her carriage stopped on the way through the city, but she did not spend the night. Some of the information on the bridal journey stops are not as absolute as the dates spent at abbeys and…

The Capital 10-Miler/10K -a Run for the Arts is traditionally held either the last Saturday in March or the first Saturday in April, avoiding conflict with various holidays and events. And, the 10-Miler is a good shake-out race for marathoners planning to run Boston or other early Spring marathons. Photo Credits: Bill Bonney Photography Well, this calendar year called for a last-week-of-March…

The end of a calendar year brings the desire to look back at the running year and see what it tells us about our progress, or lack of it, as well as our memories of particular moments, some good and some bad. Some races give us a hand with that. Race websites with candid photos and finish times from the previous years are a nice look-back. Some races go a bit deeper. Their work isn’t done when…