I'm a little behind with this one, but here goes ( Read more... )

This is one of those races from my youth. I think I ran this one right after I graduated from High School. It used to be on a Friday night, but now it's on a Saturday morning. This time around, however, it was a cold and rainy Saturday morning. 49 and windy!

( But I thrive in that weather! )

This was it for me, the big tamale this spring. A second chance at a Boston Qualifier for the year, after a couple of pitstops at Disney in January turned a close call at 3:15:59 into an "oh well" 3:17:35 ( Read more... )

It's coming down to the end of this training cycle. 5 days til Bayshore. I started tweaking yesterday during my long run, about breakfast food of all things, so there's that. I don't think I've ever really done that before. I've been nervous, sure, just not obsessive. I just have to let it ride and trust in the training at this point. The ( Read more... )

Two weeks to Bayshore. You know what that means? Time to race one last time! Luckily for me and my schedule, there was a very local 5K just a couple of miles from my house, so I thought I'd get one last PR attempt in before I have to seriously cut back my miles.

( On to the fun! )

The third and last 20 miler is under the belt, and it's almost time to taper once again. It seems like it's coming up awfully fast, just like last time, it's only three weeks til the big race ( Read more... )

Well, I had big goals going into this race. Big Goals. Sub 1:28. Insta-PR. Strike while the iron is hot. All of that.

Who would have thought it would be this warm on April 25? Crap. 68 degrees at race start. 75 at race finish. Crap. It could have been worse, with a head wind on a nearly linear course.

( But lets run through the details )

So, another week, another weekly mileage PR. 81 miles. That's definitely the max this cycle, and maybe as much as I'll be able to muster without doing daily doubles. It's also far more than I would have ever guessed I would be able to do with work and other life events going on at the same time. (81 miles is about 11 hours of running this ( Read more... )

5+ weeks to Bayshore ( Read more... )

Well, it's just over two weeks to Glass City. With the advent of the warm weather, my body has picked things up very nicely. So, with that, I've worked on my expectations for that race. My half PR is 1:28:48, and it's also my oldest PR. It's time for it to fall. So, It's time to take a shot at it. The fact that I'm in the best shape since ( Read more... )