I’ve come to the point where its time to start the countdown to the race. I did my last ‘run’ if you can call it that today, and although my left foot/ACL is bothering me, I think its going to be fine for the race (or at least I can struggle through it). I start […]

I keep saying it, but its hard to think that 17 weeks have gone by, and I just completed my last long (if you want to call it that) run before the marathon. I’ve got this tendinitis that flairs up in my Achilles on my left leg, I hope it doesn’t cause me any grief […]

I’m happy to report I’ve come out of the running slump I had last week due to my work issues …. there are plenty of people interested in employing me, so no need to worry. Back to running … things are going well, keeping the intensity where it needs to be, and keeping the miles […]

I’m trying real hard to get my mileage down, I did half the amount of miles of last weekend, so my body is just now beginning to understand that its time to heal up for the big race. I’m getting VERY excited about this race now, the weather has changed, and you can feel it […]

I have been away from the blog (not from running though) due to the announcement of the sale of the company I work for. I’ve been in kind of a rut knowing that I’m probably going to be out of work in 6-9 months being in IT, so i’ve counted on my running to help […]

Its hard to believe (as i’ve already noted) that its time to start the taper for Steamtown. 15 weeks has gone by like nothing, but my body does need to time to recover. I happily finished 22.25 miles yesterday, and the most amazing part is that I asked myself towards the end, “can I do […]

Well, its sad but true that the major part of my training for Steamtown is coming near an end. I have a 22 miler plus a 10 miler planned for the weekend, and then its taper time. I’ve been doing some reading and intend on reminding myself (via posting a blog entry) on what NOT […]

Well, I put a few more measures in place to try and prevent SPAMMERS from posting on my blog. Its unfortunate that such idiots exist in this world. I hope it works … (i’m just getting tired of deleting comments all the time from spammers). Anyway, I got up and out early today at 5:20am […]

I’ve thought about some of the distress i’ve felt in the past months during training and found that I think since i’m so intense on training and staying injury free, that i’m over-doing the aches and pains that i’m feeling. I found that when I take my mind off of the pains/aches, its not as […]

It never seems to amaze me that pains seem to creep back up. I’ve got 4 more weeks of training left to go and my left groin area is VERY sore. I mixed up the training a bit this week and did my 3 day in a row from Mon-Wed, took thursday off, did my […]