This morning I was engorged in Runner’s World and reading about the elites’ finish at the Boston Marathon. Now Marathon Monday is being looked at in a whole new light, one of tragedy. Whoever the hell did this can’t be a human being. While it is true, I have little faith in humanity, I simply […]
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Well, today was my last long training run and the end to week 10, which means there are only 2 weeks left until the NWM Half DC! I don’t think I have much to say about today or the last few days. On Thursday run club went to Roosevelt Island, which was cool because I
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While everyone was out running the Cherry Blossom 10 Mile sans cherry blossoms last Saturday, I was running my own 10 miles. And I’ve been too tired (dehydrated?) since to write until now. I was in the Pittsburgh area for the weekend visiting family, so I got a change of scenery. 10 miles is a
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Well I ran down to the Tidal Basin on Thursday and the cherry blossoms had still yet to bloom. Of course. I will try to do Tuesday’s run down there and hopefully they will have finally bloomed (and the tourists will have departed). Anyways, I’m in Pittsburgh for the weekend so tomorrow morning’s run will
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Today I had one of those awesomely blissful runs where I could have just kept running into the sunset (figuratively of course, since it was only 2pm). I’m not sure why it had me feeling so good, but I think there could be many reasons: 1. Last week was a recovery week, so I should
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Yes, I run in Vibram FiveFingers and I love them, but sometimes I feel like the less shoe there is, the more burden I carry. It’s sometimes hard to remember how I tricked myself into buying such goofy shoes in the first place. This week I had to think back and actually remember that it
There are fingers on my toes! Read More »
Saturday long runs are consistently my favorite part of the week. I look forward to them no matter where I am or how early I inevitably have to wake up. I used to run in the early afternoon on Saturdays, but as of late I’ve gotten used to being an early bird. I guess it
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Week 8 was a recovery week, and while I know this is built into my half marathon training for my benefit, I have to admit I’ve been bored. On one hand, it was nice to have because on Saturday after my long run I started getting sick. By Sunday I had full-blown nasal congestion and
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9.61. Week 7 has concluded and that means just over a month left until my half marathon. Today was supposed to be a 9 mile long run with the run club. To my happy surprise about half the group was running 9 today too. The beginning of the run was going slow, so once I
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