My running week sucked last week. Maybe I decided to take a break between a long day and a track day. Track day didn’t happen on Tuesday as I worked…
Last night, I depressed the clutch of a standard car for the first time ever. Coming home from an errand, a friend pull into a church parking lot rather than…
I’ve only got time for a short post, but here goes. I’ve been short on time the past couple days, which I’ve dealt with by running hard three of those…
My past two workouts, I’ve not adhered to my Hadd plan. Last Tuesday I felt like crap running my sub 165 effort. After stints of two miles and one mile…
Holy Cow, I ran a 50 mile week without a race. Ok, so my week wasn’t all that impressive, but a step in the right direction for a number of…
Folks, I’m just back from the track and headed out to two shindigs this evening, but this is progress. Tonight, I ran my second Hadd mini-test and while I feel…
Ok, what follows is a stream off consciousness response to Loomis‘s comment in response to my previous post regarding the application of the conception of proprioception to a bipedal robot:…
“Alex, what are robots with proprioception?” This article reminds me of a chat about proprioception I had with teammate/clubmate Greg Loomis over the winter. Ok, so our talk in no…
So after work tonight, I have to go to some swanky Asian-Latin fusion restaurant for an “optional” dinner with the other associates at The Firm. They’re all good folk and…
To start, after a few good training weeks, my two previous running weeks have been awful. I think I missed three days two weeks ago and am pretty sure that…
Ok, I’ve got to be mighty careful the next few days. After averaging 30 miles a week for the past four months (excluding Laurel Highlands), I ran 42 miles over…
I’m going to try something new. Every time (or nearly every time) I run a Hadd workout, I’ll write about it. That’s not so different, as I’ve already posted about…
You guessed it, that someone was me. That’s right, I officially withdrew from the Vermont 100 yesterday. It’s been the plan for a while now, but I hadn’t pulled the…
As you likely know, today marks a major annual astronomical occurrence…. ONLY THREE MONTHS UNTIL AUTUMN!!! :-D For me, autumn can’t come soon enough. Anyone else for eliminating July from…
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….
A big shout out to all my peeps running the Bighorn 100 this weekend… and there are a ton of you. But here’s a few individual shout outs: Amy “I…
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…
While I haven’t posted a race report for LHU yet, I’ve corresponded with some ultra buddies about it. My summary is I ran conservatively, ate a ton, didn’t give in,…
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…
Tomorrow is the Old Dominion 100 Mile Cross Country Run, the second of the two “Old Dominion” 100 mile races held in Virginia’s Fort Valley each spring. (There’s a long…
What I need, unlike a hole in my head, is a fall East Coast 100 miler to run. I don’t know of any. (TWOT doesn’t count… it’s not an event……
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…
Today, my sister ran in a new product (for her), a pair of “Ice Runners” that are better known as STABLicer SPORTs. She shared her thoughts on the STABILicers with…
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…
I have it on good authority that the Montrail Slipstream that briefly appeared on the Montrail website and which I previously discussed here is no longer in development. While I…
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…
To MMFCS, I won’t wish you luck for tomorrow, cause I know you WILL do it! While the journey will be difficult at times, be sure to have fun on…
So I’m headed out to California next weekend for Way Too Cool and am hoping that someone who reads my blog lives in the area or is headed to WTC…
About half an hour ago, I was looking at Klas Eklof’s pictures of Hardrock and dreaming of running Hardrock next year. Oh, but how fickle a man’s mind. Right now,…
Synopsis of Week’s Training:Easy Monday run, felt a bit tired. On Tuesday pre-pre-WUS (4 miles) and pre-WUS (9 miles with Keith and Sean) tired me out and I proceeded to…
Quick update, since I’ve been bad about updating. Last week I logged 86 miles and I’ve run 127 miles in the previous nine days. Each of the past two weekends…
Those who know me, know that I’ve been fortunate enough to run (and finish) the Western States Endurance Run in each of the past three years. In 2006, I qualified…
Ok, folks. Here it is, the first breaking scoop on I Run Far. Recently, during one of my frequent trips to the Montrail website, I came across a shoe I…
Over the weekend, I Run Far had its 1,000 page impression since I started it up back in December. Thanks to everyone who has stopped by and read what I’m…
(1) I’m buried. Buried in a back load of posts, that is. I owe myself and anyone who read this posts on my run in Hawaii, my training of late,…
I just found out that I won an entry to the Way Too Cool 50k in California! And another race goes on to the schedule (March 10). Related articles: Can…
I am flying over America’s Heartland en route to Phoenix, where I will meet up with my running buddy, Steve Burton (formerly of Northern Virginia, now of Tucson, Arizona). From…
Synopsis of Week’s Training:This a lame week that I’ll chalk up to exhaustion. Work was crazy – I worked longer hours than normal, but I think a jump in responsibility…
Synopsis of Week’s Training:This week will be chalked up as a sick week. I woke up on Christmas morning knowing that I was sick. What a bummer. What’s worse, it…
Upon running up to my parents’ house after the aforementioned rainy run, I saw folks getting out of the car at our long time neighbors’, the Parkers’. Well, I went…
I’ve been horrible about blogging of late. Truth be told, I’ve had a rough stretch of it of late. I was sick for for a week starting xmas day and…
