I had to take a two day break from running after my long run on Saturday, as I mentioned previously, my wife was sick with pneumonia and in the hospital until Monday night. She’s doing well now, still sick, but at least she is home and recovering. This did give me the opportunity to relax […]

After enjoying my day of rest yesterday and a light running week, I had some hardship today where my wife was admitted to the hospital. Alot of stress there. I needed a release, so i decided to find a babysitter and do a long long run, like 12-13 miles. My father helped me out and […]

I’m enjoying running a little easier and less the past few days and even looking forward to less days next week, although I do have a 5 mile race coming up on Sunday. My legs are actually not hurting me anymore (sore), its weird. Its also good to be able to eat a little more […]

From: racecommittee@hotmail.com Mailed-By: active.com To: XXXXX@XXXXX.XXX Date: 03 May 2006 11:55:35 -0800 Subject: Steamtown Marathon TO: Steamtown Marathon Entrants FROM: Jim Cummings, Asst. Race Director Greetings from Steamtown! Just wanted to thank all of you “early birds” for signing up for our October 8 race. We already have 170 entrants from 17 states, Canada and […]

After struggling through the day on Sunday and Monday, recovering from my PR performance at the half-marathon, its time to start considering the training for Steamtown. My legs were like jelly all day, real sore, and I felt really drained. I don’t feel I was eating enough after the race and even into Monday because […]

Amazing, simply amazing …. I’ve returned from my trip to Allentown and my first appearance in the Runners World Half-Marathon. I’m satisfied with my time, although I don’t yet have the official results, my watch time was 1:48 and the clock time was 1:50. I imagine the chip time is somewhere in between that. I […]

Its just about here. I’ve trained for 12 weeks for this race tomorrow in Allentown, and the final destination is almost here. I’m actually nervous, even at this point, about the race. I guess I just don’t know if i’m nervous because of the logistics around the race, or the race itself. I’ve ran this […]

Seems that there are different viewpoints on carb-loading before a race, and I found this in an active.com article located here: http://www.active.com/story.cfm?story_id=12998&category=Running&num=1 The no-depletion method Fortunately, later research showed that you can increase glycogen storage significantly without first depleting it. A newer carbo-loading protocol based on this research calls for athletes to eat a normal […]

I found a bunch of these throughout the internet, most are from the runners world forum, but they are so typical of your regular ‘hard-core’ runner, I think they are hilarious! (Don’t Miss Part 2 of this never-ending list HERE. You know that you’re a runner when …… * You don’t know why your husband/wife, […]

I started this corny little thing last time I trained for a race, that I call “reflections”. What it really entails is during the last week of training (usually the taper before the race), I take time to review my training log and “reflect” on the ups and downs of the training. I’ve learned that […]