It was a warm day in Forty Fort this morning when I ran the 26th annual Lions Forty Fort Old-Fort 5-Miler. I did well despite the heat (note it was the FIRST race of the reason with NO SHIRT!) I made great use of the water tables, getting water each time and then dumping it […]

It was a return to the long run today, picking up 9.7 miles (I misjudged the distance when I set the course) instead of 9 miles. I get bummed on the fact that my knees get so sore and swollen after even small distances, but afterward, there is no pain, so I just can’t figure […]

I’m now on day 3 of the pre-training for Steamtown, and still trying to take it somewhat easy as I’ll only hit 25 miles total this week (plus a day of cross-training and 3 days of weights). I guess maybe thats not so little. I actually enjoyed the cross-training on monday, I did the elliptical […]

For some reason, i’m nervous, yet excited about the training. I think the nerves come in that I’m afraid of getting injured or not being able to acheive my goal. I know i have to get over it, but its hard, this is one of the biggest things I’ve done in my life so far […]

This past week was a real light week as far as miles are concerned, I only chalked up 23 miles plus one day of cross-training. I haven’t run this little amount of miles since back in January sometime, so its a change, but my knees really need it. I intend to continue to take it […]

I found this interesting “marathon mistake” in an article from Active.com located at: http://www.active.com/story.cfm?story_id=13004&category=Running&num=3 Some general comments from the forumites at Runners world states that some of this is based on personal experience and not really relevant for all runners, however I did find #10 to be interesting: If your VO2max, lactate threshold, economy, running […]

I started another phase of the preperation for training today, that being the start of cross-training and doing upper-body weights. It rained today here in the Northeast (like a monsoon) so I took advantage of the fact and did a half-hour ellipitical workout, and then did light weight training per Hal Higdons training plan (see […]

I decided to challenge myself somewhat by pushing my long run a little bit this week. I figured that I had a downer mileage week anyway, so it can’t hurt. I decided to do two laps around Harveys’ Lake, which would equal 16.2 miles, and surprisingly, I did it quite well. I learned a few […]

Hmmm, I came across a thread on runners world that talks about Steamtown and how to prepare … a guy mentions hill-repeats … haven’t heard that used for in preparing for Steamtown, heres the thread: http://forums.runnersworld.com/thread.jspa?threadID=348965&tstart=0 So of course, I head off to runners world to see what they say. Another big, long breakout of […]

I was very happy yesterday when the race director for the race I missed on Sunday (cherry blossom run), showed up at my house with the t-shirt for the race I didn’t run. I’ve never missed a race before, so i’m not sure if this is normal, but I was really touched that he came […]