“Act your age and take up golf”. This was the advice given to me by a passing neighbor as I struggled to the end of one of my runs this week.
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“Act your age and take up golf”
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Begin again
In 13 weeks I’ll run The Light At The End of the Tunnel Marathon. This will be my 14th marathon. Between now and then I have approximately 75 days of training. Today was day one. I …
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The streak is alive
So I’m 20 for 20 on my mini quest to ‘run the holidays’.
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Time to get my streak on
Good habits are hard to form and easy to break. It’s a little over three weeks since I ran my last marathon (NYC), and truth be told, I’ve barely been able to muster the enthusiasm …
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2015 – A Running Review
What a year that was. I ran one of my worst marathons, and one of my best. I ran more miles than ever, but fewer actual races than usual. Say it quietly, but I even …
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MY2K
I’m awarding myself a polite golf clap today for achieving a small personal milestone, passing 2,000 miles of running for the year. My previous annual best total was 1,402 miles in 2012, so to blow past that …
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A Race Well Run
So the Marine Corps Marathon, my 11th race over 26.2 miles, is done, dusted and will go into the books as definitely one of my better and more enjoyable marathon experiences. For the record, my …
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OORAH!
T- 9 hours and counting on the road to DC and the Marine Corps Marathon. So this is it. A fitful few hours of sleep and I’ll be off to the start of my 11th …
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Staying the course
16 weeks down and 2 to go on the road to DC. Whenever I talk to non-runners about marathon running, one of the comments I almost invariably hear (other than “you’re crazy”), is “I could …
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A Small Personal Milestone
5 weeks to DC A small golf clap to myself for setting a new personal benchmark. I ran 61 miles in the past week, the first time ever that I’ve taken my weekly running total …
Run me to the moon 