A couple of weeks ago I ran my first trail ultra marathon. I didn’t plan this at all. No regrets! And I learned stuff from the experience. This race showed up in my recommendations a couple of days before the event. It was only five days since my recent marathon in Toledo and I was happily […]
You know how, when you’re training for a race, there’s always something that gets in the way? I figured out that’s just life. There will always be some obstacle to deal with. Accustomed to running higher volume, I went into this marathon on low mileage. Comparatively, very low mileage. The tough part is that no […]
Marathons are funny things. Sometimes you break the rules; and sometimes the marathon breaks the rules too. My inner rebel dictated this (somewhat brief) training cycle as well as race day. I went into Run Rock ‘n’ Roll race weekend in New Orleans with no expectations other than to finish, have fun and make some […]
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 […]
Sometimes things go wrong and most of us understand that to some degree. The Great Chocolate Race is a national race series and hosted its second Orlando event on September 2nd, 2017. The race directors (I use the term loosely as there was no direction in the event at all) are Michael and Jodi Barder […]