This year one of my biggest running goals is to run more races. That's not to say I want to race more races. That's not to say I want to PR more races. I just want to run them. The thing is, I have run thousands of miles, but how many of them were under [...]
If I counted on my hands how many conversations have started with “You run at night, in the dark...by yourself?!”, I would need to borrow your hands. I have found that, for me, running safety is less about preparing for worst-case psycho killer on the greenway scenarios, and more about these practical, happens-more-often-than-you-think issues. For [...]
I'm going to be blunt here. The weather has sucked for my long runs recently. I'm convinced that my 17-milers are cursed. (As are my 2.5 mile runs. Seriously, I avoid 2.5 mile runs like the plague.) Unfortunately those 17 mile runs are much more difficult to avoid. Can't cut them back without negatively impacting [...]
There's a rule of thumb that runners shouldn't have more than a 10% weekly mileage gain from week to week. That rule of thumb has helped me quite a bit. It gives me a place to start and a gauge to tell me whether I can be ready for a specific race in the future. [...]
Is was a Monday. When the alarm went off I immediately rolled over, blindly grabbed my phone from the night stand, cracked open one eye, and started sifting my way through appointments, projects, and email to get a picture of how my week looked. As usual, when I had dealt with all the pressing matters, [...]
Margarin… wait that's not right… Let me try that again. Margin. Margin is a word I don't use very often in conversation, but it's a word that I love to consider. In my running plan, in races, in life when I'm not running, sometimes it's a good thing, and sometimes it's a bad thing. But let [...]
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