Best Marathon Training Run…ever!

by | Fitness, Personal

For the last few weeks I have had great Sunday runs. While I was here in town, I hooked up with various folks to get about 8 miles in the middle of my 17(ish) mile training runs that were quite a bit faster than I have been doing (6:19-6:24 the first week and 6:20ish to 6:30ish the second week). I went up to visit my uncles last weekend, and wanted to get a good workout in.

My uncles live, appropriately enough, 17 miles apart. Last year, I missed a turn and it wound up being a 28 mile run (which I ran 27 of), but this year I made sure I knew which direction I was going. The fun part comes in with the motivation to run faster; my girlfriend was also doing her long run.

Long Island Running

by | Personal

This weekend I ran on Long Island (NY, not ME). I was not overly impressed with the runner friendliness. I started in Eastport and went through Speonk and maybe another town or two. The first road I was on had no sidewalks and no shoulder, sharp turns, and 50+ mile...

Beach Run

by | Fitness, Personal

When I was in college, we used to go down to Camp Winona for Spring training. 10 miles in the morning, 5 in the afternoon, hang out in Daytona or at Lake Winona the rest of the day. One day during each trip we would check to see when low tide was going to be early in...

Cold Summer and Diving Dogs

by | Fitness, Personal

Last night it was a bit chilly and it has been raining for a few days, so instead of doing 880s in Baxter Woods as we had on the schedule we went to Bradley Street to run. Bradley street is similar to Baxter Woods in an opposite sort of way (if that makes sense.) In...

Exhaustion Take 2

by | Personal

I thought that I was tired before…I am going on 20 hours here at work, with a fairly fast 5 mile run about 3 hours in. Not only that, but I did not bring enough food with me to work for a normal day let alone my still being here this morning. Oh well, hence...