Ready for this year’s Reach the Beach! Team ultra midlife crisis hits the road at 3 pm. Very much looking forward to running all night; the mad delirium, the camaraderie, the physical intensity and eventually exhaustion that’s somehow like prayer, and the stars as bright as you will ever see them in a vast New […]
I didn’t run the 50 miler I’d signed up for in May. Life got complicated, and I re-prioritized all kinds of stuff. Running too. But in deciding not to run the race, not to keep training for the race, I got a chance to think a good deal more about the questions I asked in […]
Struggling to figure out how to display all those race medals (assuming your spouse prefers you don’t hang them in the kitchen)? I was cleaning the basement this afternoon and got side-“tracked” with marathon race medal organizing and an old artificial tree we had in the closet. Made a heavy metal Christmas tree. (Thanks for […]
I am not by nature a super early riser, or a morning runner. For many of my marathon running years, I got up just in time to breakfast, shower and get to work, and not a minute earlier. I ground out my midweek long runs at night, starting after we got the kids to bed […]
Distance running is wonderful sport in part because the races are so egalitarian: the back-of-the-packers are literally competing in the same event as the world champions. You pay your fee, enter the race and run – albeit usually far, far behind – the elite runners. But it’s worth chewing over the idea that with the exception […]
Work took me to San Francisco last week, and on Thursday morning, well before sunup, I set out for a lovely 13 miler. After the winter we’ve had here in New England, a slightly clammy but not too breezy 66F felt like liberation – a shorts-and-singlet run that led me eventually to this stunning predawn […]
Remember that scene where Forrest reevaluates his relationship with running? I am not having *fun* with marathon training this time around; the comeback period to get race-ready for April, following this injury, is too accelerated. But more than that, as I’ve been grinding out the miles this time around, I’m simply not enjoying them, or […]
Now that we’re back in the polar vortex, seems timely to share a link to a new post at my friend Tim’s site, Outdoors New Hampshire. He’s penned a handy survival guide to treadmill running. He’s got some good ideas on making the workout equate to a road workout as well as a cool workout […]
