Sometimes nothing soothes the spirit like a day spent in the outdoors – away from the computer monitor and keyboard, the desk and lamp, the debilitating radiation of the television. But this doesn’t always require a journey into the wilderness. This afternoon, after Isobel got up from her nap, Kris and I took the kids [...]
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It’s still snowing. Been doing that since yesterday. And it was about twelve degrees when I woke up at 5:15 this morning. It’s pretty likely that this morning’s long run, training for a winter marathon that or no, would have been in the gym, on a treadmill watching television, if it hadn’t been for the [...]
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Today I ran my second 22-mile training run en route to the Oct. 5 Maine Marathon in Portland. A few interesting things to note – the first and most striking of which is that I felt really good, all the way through and afterward. As recommended by various training programs, I ran it about one-minute-per-mile [...]
It was one of those days where you end up wanting to run just a bit further… and a bit further. And then suddenly you have no idea where you are and only a very general sketch of the map in your head. You know you can get back to the start, but you're not [...]
Despite what I said I planned to do in the last post on this subject; I didn't eat the big greasy pizza last night in preparation for my long run today — and I bonked at mile 15, just like hitting a wall, and struggled through the last three miles. It was perhaps made worse [...]
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