I rarely oversleep and miss my alarm. At least, not so badly that I can’t recover with a bit of quick moving. This is the second time in a couple of months that it’s happened. Of course it would have helped if the volume was a little louder than a whisper. It meant I would […]
With Hurricane Irma out of the way and a few missed runs due to the weather conditions, it felt great to just get out today. There was no hope of a smooth training run. Still so much debris laying around. But after being cooped up in humid post-storm Florida with no power or air conditioning […]
This shaped up to be a great training week. Almost half way through the training cycle and there have been fleeting moments where it suddenly all feels very real. I’m also sitting on the fence right now about changing my goals for this marathon. Well, perhaps it’s not so much changing goals as it is […]
My 10 miler on Saturday had to be the strangest race I’ve ever experienced. I already wrote a review on the craziness of the event and there were a lot of things that went wrong. It left me feeling weird all day yesterday. I didn’t run yesterday, which was Sunday. There was no motivation to […]
It turns out I didn’t have time to get into trouble this last month. I was too busy running. Earlier this week someone asked me casually how many miles I’d run this month and I wasn’t sure. It would be one of my higher months, and I knew that, but that was the extent of […]
With a last minute memory jolt that I have a race (and I use that word very loosely) this weekend, I’m actually fine with leaving out the long run. A short-long run would do and anything beyond that is purely going by feel. The nice thing about running more miles than I plan is it’s […]
When I try do too many things at once, I have a bad habit of feeling like delegating something that I’ve failed. Of course with more things to do than hours in a day to do them, something is going to slide. For me that usually starts with less sleep and slipping up on my […]
It’s hard to believe I’m starting Week Six of my training schedule. It’s kind of scary in a way. This is how the weeks just roll by and next thing I know, it will be taper time. There is usually no plan for my Monday run, but today just felt like a good day for […]
After a lighter training week and a few days of rest, I feel really fresh and recharged again. The minor residual cold symptoms are pretty much sliding under the radar with no effect on me now. Having had time to think and review the last five weeks, I’m ready to adjust my training schedule. I’m […]
Really? A nostalgic long run? That sounds silly. My long run for today was hanging in the balance. Even when I left the house, feeling much better, I knew that I’d need to take it one mile at a time. There was every chance I might have to turn back and cut it short if […]