There are four ways to support this year’s annual Bike Coalition of Maine Silent Auction and Fundraiser, all of them awesome.

The Bike Shop’s Second Annual Community Ride has a new component this year – the Portland Bike Expo – and will be held on June 29 at Payson Park in Portland.

Beck, who this March set a new course record in the Way Too Cool 50K in Cool, California, appears on the cover of Ultrarunning magazine’s May/June issue.

Maine Track Club President Mark Grandonico is taking on a big new job as the Eastern Region Director of the Road Runners Club of America.

2007 overall series winners, Fred Thomas and Erin Brennan, take first in the second Peak Performance Maine Time Trial series race.

Mother’s Day perennial favorite and pace setter Ethan Hemphill, 35, of Freeport  won the Portland Sea Dogs Mother’s Day 5K in 15:14, ahead of 1900 other runners made up of mothers or people who have or have had a mother.

“Observe yourself and concentrate,” says Iain Binning, a Scottish sport psychologist and triathlete. “You must concentrate on your strategy for the race and maintain a steady effort. It's about mental application for a physical aim."