My Best Days
My best days end up with me dirty, sore, and exhausted. Those days are satisfying. I love those days. Laurel Highlands was one of those days and so was yesterday….
My best days end up with me dirty, sore, and exhausted. Those days are satisfying. I love those days. Laurel Highlands was one of those days and so was yesterday….
My recovery seems to be going along alright following Saturday’s outing in Pennsylvania. Here’s a day-by-day how my recovery’s gone. Sunday: 0 miles Came home to a lawn that needed…
First, I must say that I’m awfully surprised with my performance at the Laurel Highlands Ultra on Saturday. You were quite right, Loomdawg. Next, I need to correct any mistaken impression…
Oh boy. Tomorrow is the Laurel Highlands Ultra. Last fall when I pondered my ’07 racing schedule, I had hope for LHU to be a focus race, if not THE…
Today, I had three memorable firsts. (1) I made my first mortgage payment. Only 359 to go. :-) And since I’m in the process of breaking through the running/non-running life…
Here are the results of Hadd mini-test 1 (baseline). (doc file explaining Hadd mini-test) This test is likely slow biased. It was the first time I’ve run in real heat…
I think that the next time I hit the track I’ll run my first Hadd mini-test. The mini-test is a free and easy way to determine where your lactate threshold…
At the moment, I’m on a plane flying back from a great weekend in the Rockies with my dad. After two months of working myself ragged with the home purchase…
I forgot to mention one aspect of my workout last night – my runner’s high DURING the workout. While I’ve had many runner’s highs over the years, I cannot recall…
While some friends are off galavanting around the world and running cruise intervals, I hit the track for some fun. I set off with my normal plan – to run…
Continuing with the sea change in my training regimen, I hit the track again last night with the plan on doing an unknown number of miles at around 165 bpm….
Ok, super quick update here. (1) I have no idea how much I’m running these days, only it’s not much. (2) Without time for long runs or even runs everyday,…
Last week was not a good week for my training. I ditch running Miwok and instead took the whole week off to spend 9 consecutive days renovating my new house….
I just hopped out the shower and am about to head out on a run. Now, I wouldn’t normally share my daily (most of the time) adventures in hygeine. However,…
Lots to catch up on in the near future, such as why I didn’t finish the Bull Run Run 50 miler, my current training, changes in race plans, and the…
The other way to put it is – I’m buying a house. I put in an offer on a single family home two doors down from where I live in…
While I’ve gone through some dry spells in posting, I think I’ve been pretty consistent for a while now. I’ve also been pretty good about sticking to running. However, in…
Sometimes I’m awfully dumb. I might as well be banging my head against the wall for all I learn from some of my mistakes. You see, I’ve had uncomfortably congested…
The VERY quick summary of today’s run at HAT. I finished 5th, right in the middle of my 5 finishes there 4, 4, 5, 7, and 1?. (Those are from…
While I wouldn’t consider myself fully recovered, I do feel that I’m on the way back. Why do I think this? Well, first of my runs from Saturday through Monday…
Synopsis of Week’s Training:It didn’t take me very long this week to figure out that I was in a running funk. To add to this, Monday found me touching down…
Doesn’t my sister look like a nature trail ultra runner? Here she is 21.5 miles into her first trail race, first marathon, and first ultra and she looks like she…
I’ve been heeding recommendations of y’all and the advice I would normally give others and have taken the past 3 days off completely. Yesterday, I wanted to run, but took…
I’ve got the funk…. or at least I’m in one. I’m in a running funk and I risk falling into a personal funk. This isn’t the first time I’ve fallen…
Ok, so I was not quick nor did I get dirty today at WTC, but this post is both those things. It’s an email I sent to a couple friends…
Phew! It’s been an exhausting last week, some of it pleasant, some of it not. I had a great long weekend hanging out with Gretchen and Amy, including the Seneca…
A friend of mine is headed south to Central America this weekend and that got me thinking about tasty rum. I like rum, particularly good rum. Well, I mulled and…
Ok, now that the deed is done, I can expand upon yesterday’s post. On only a couple days notice after my planting a crazy idea in her head and no…
