As I was heading into the (literal) home stretch on this morning's run, I realized that I haven't had a single run in the past five days that wasn't "squishy ( Read more... )

In lieu of a long run, we did a 2-mile (3200m) time trial on the track this morning. Afterwards, we got to watch Leo Manzano rip out an 800 meter trial of his own in what I think my ears heard as 1:47. Even if I heard wrong, I don't think that I have ever seen anyone run like that in person before. I would make some comment about the Austin High ( Read more... )

When I forced myself out of bed this morning to go join my running group, I was expecting to run (imagine that). And of course we did some running. But most of the workout was something a bit different ( Read more... )

My yearly jaunt into the realm of the 5k happened yesterday. I knew it was going to be a battle going in, but it turned out to be a different sort of battle than I thought.

I've been steadily increasing my mileage (from zero) over the past 6 weeks, so that I could be ready to start training for New York (yes.. I've been training to start training, ( Read more... )

I looked at my watch this morning. Three weeks of sitting idle had drained all of its life away. I plugged it in. As I was getting dressed for the day, I saw the shoes I bought at the beginning of February. I noticed how new they still look. They are very blue. I saw the sun this morning, too. I thought, "It has some work to do if it is going to ( Read more... )

It was the best of races, it was the worst of races; it was a run of widsom, it was a run of foolishness; it was the epoch of... oh screw it.

I finally had a bit of time to sit down and write this out, though there's not a whole lot to write about the actual race. This race felt really short. More like a 10k than a half Marathon. Maybe it's because ( Read more... )

Mile 19-going-on-20: I knew there was a reason I kept the hat on.


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You thought I'd forgotten! No.. but this one did take me a while. I started writing one of my typical race reports here the Monday after the race. I was going through my normal process of writing up a race report (yeah.. I have a "process").

I wrote down all the random things I could remember from race day. I started putting them in order of ( Read more... )

The Houston Marathon is on Sunday.

When I signed up for this race six months ago, I was more looking forward to watching the Olympic trials on Saturday... and that's actually still the case. I actually have a better "plan" put together for watching the trials than I do for running the race. Very early on, I decided that this wasn't going to be an "A ( Read more... )

The last time I did this race, I offered up a Christmas-y tune to go with my race report.  Let's make that a holiday tradition, shall we?

Oh the weather out here's delightful,
But it real-ly should be frightful,
So all 'round the lake I'll go,
Where's the wind? Where's the rain? Where's the snow?*

The sky above might be clearing,
And a bird sing-ing I'm ( Read more... )