I found a blog post by Tim Wilson, a guy who's pursuing a first marathon (and recovering from a shoulder injury right now), who earlier this year gave a shout out to runners who are on Twitter looking to connect up. Great idea. I know I tweet my running quite a bit, and am not [...]
Some good, common sense news from the American Dietetic Assoc.'s annual meeting, including: There's no proof that calories consumed at night make you any fatter than calories consumed at other times of the day. Makes perfect sense. (Of course, if you have less self control at night vegging in front of the tv or sipping [...]
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I swapped my weekend long run from Saturday to Sunday because I wanted to give a tweak in my calf time to finish healing up before I pounded on it for 16 miles. Good plan, except Saturday afternoon just before we left for Mass, I got a call from a good friend who was passing [...]
Continue reading about There are days when you really want to run; then there are days like today
Seven hundred and fifty cold, snowy, sneaker driven miles. That's roughly the number I'm going to log between now and the Hyannis Marathonon February 22. It will be my second marathon (the first was Portland, Oct. 5) and this time I'm aiming to run a Boston Qualifying time (3:15). Not that I didn't want to run [...]
Continue reading about 750 miles to Hyannis: Committed to 26.2 number two
As I start the first runs of my next marathon training cycle, I take a moment to remember those initial, painful days after the first one. The memory has faded; this video helps bring it back…
I could not have asked for better day, or a better course, on which to run my first marathon, the Peak Performance Maine Marathon. The morning was clear and blue, about 45 degrees when I shed my fleece jacket and lined up for the start. With all the adrenalin and excitement, it felt perfect. We’d left [...]
It's four a.m., breakfast has been eaten and a first cup of coffee drunk. News read. Gear rechecked. In about 30 minutes I'll wake up Kris and my sister Ana and we'll head out for Portland, Maine. At 7:45 a.m. I'll start running my first marathon – and it's hard to describe just how excited, [...]
A week from today I am running my first marathon, the Maine Marathon up in Portland. And in some ways, the end of the training cycle has been the hardest part – much harder than the longest long runs (a couple of 22 milers). This part is as much psychological and strategic as physical, with some faith [...]
Continue reading about One week until the Maine marathon, taper update, goal setting
Closing in on my first marathon (Oct, 5), waiting to see how all of these many months of training and work come together, I was surprised to find myself feeling edgy about it, a bit nervous, off kilter somehow. Some runs that should have felt easy felt hard, some that should have felt hard felt… [...]
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 [...]
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