Final Preparations before the Cox RI Marathon

Well, it has been a very busy day as I prepare to head down to Providence this weekend for the Cox Rhode Island Marathon. I ran an easy 2 and a half miles at lunch time to stretch the legs out, and despite my best efforts to leave work 15 or 20 minutes early I was in...

I am now an RRCA Certified Running Coach

It is official. I am now an RRCA Certified Running Coach. As described on the website: The Road Runners Club of America is the national association of running clubs, running events, and runners dedicated to promoting long distance running as a competitive sport and as...

ING Georgia Marathon (2008)

Thanks to everybody for the well-wishes and for the queries about how I ran this weekend. I will keep this very brief since I managed to catch a small bug and am going to spend a few more days resting and not taxing myself. The flights down to Georgia were uneventful,...

ING Georgia Marathon Preparations

If all is going according to plan, then I am on my way down to Atlanta right now for the RRCA Coaching Clinic and for the ING Georgia Marathon. I have a review scheduled to appear on the site tomorrow morning thanks to a couple of excellent readers from my newsletter,...

Running beneath an eclipse…

Tonight led to an interesting run, as evidenced in the photo the right. I considered postponing my run until late tonight so that I could see the eclipse while I was running, but decided that it wasn’t worth staying up that late. I knew that the eclipse would...

Garmin ForeRunner + Indoor Track = ???

I wore my new Garmin ForeRunner 305 to the indoor track today so that I could make use of the heart rate monitor. That aspect of my workout was a failure, but I learned quite a few things about my new GPS watch and running on an indoor track. When I got home, I was...