Resolutions: Run More Races in 2017
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 [...]
Running at Night By Myself
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 [...]
Curse of the 17-miler
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 [...]
Building Margin Into My Distance Training Plans
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 [...]
Running and Isolation
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 [...]
What Does “Margin” Mean to Me as a Runner?
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 [...]
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