I completed the Ocean Drive marathon on March 25th, with the 15-20 MPH winds and all. The race was brutal with that head-wind the whole way, it really affected my time. I felt the effects of being under-trained as well, and the weather didn’t help, but I still pulled off a 4:25 regardless. I knew […]

So i’ve done the training (at least most of it despite injuries), prepared myself, rested, tapered and carbo-loaded. The family is getting ready now to travel with me down to Wildwood New Jersey for the race … we’re staying at the host hotel in Wildwood, so it should be a good stay. The best part […]

I’ve made it through … the last real run before the marathon (saturday is just a short easy jog). This also means it carbo-load time! It will be three days before the marathon tomorrow, and we’ll start with probably some french toast or something. I’ll continue with pierogies and then spaghetti again on Friday … […]

I’m down to my last run tomorrow before a two day break, and then an easy run Saturday before the marathon on Sunday. The weather looks like it will be okay, and I will survive this cold that I had. The doctor hooked me up with some antibiotics and flonase for my sinus infection. Its […]

So i’m heading off to the doctor in about a half hour to hopefully get a fix for this head cold. Its not quite as bad today, but still bothering me. Its snowing again outside, that sucks, however the weather is still looking to be in the 50’s for the race on Sunday in Cape […]

Seems that after struggling through the injuries, the bad weather and all the adversity of this training cycle, i’m not done fighting for this marathon. I am one week away from being on the shuttle bus to the Ocean Drive marathon, and I have a head cold. Yep, its slowly been coming on since Friday, […]

I was able to get my 6+ miler in yesterday, and then 3 miles in today, very early (5am), which I don’t seem to mind. Wednesday and Thursday were nice, but this morning was a little colder, but I still didn’t mind it. I like getting it done and over with in the morning, I […]

i’ve already struggled in my first taper week for the ocean drive marathon. I intended to get out after work on Tuesday and run, but couldn’t because I had to stay late. and it was BEAUTIFUL OUT! I was so mad. Anyway, I got out this morning, at 5am outside to get 6 miles in […]

I completed my last tougher week of running before I officially start tapering for the Ocean Drive marathon on March 25th. I didn’t do quite as many miles as I had done last week, but I still did more than the first week of the Steamtown taper, and I did it at a faster pace […]

Well I took it easy today for two reasons, first, my foot was still a little sore when I started out, and second, it was COLD out! its supposed to start warming up from here on out, so I’m hoping that its true. I was able to do 4.25 miles today instead of 9 miles, […]