I managed to completely sabotage my beloved long run day. It’s not so much that I did anything wrong. The trouble is, I neglected some basic key things that I do without thinking and for most if it, I didn’t do anything right. The result was a run gone wrong. Stupid stuff, but lots of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I woke up feeling like crap this morning. My head hurts, my throat is sore and and my nose is stuffy. I was feeling pretty miserable when the alarm went off. When I was playing with the dogs yesterday afternoon I also did something to my ankle. Thinking back to when I got into bed […]