No, I’m not focusing on the weather. Or, rather, at least I have the experience of running two marathons in the rain. I have a lot more anticipation about this one, because this one is the END OF RACING SEASON…
I ran 7-ish miles this morning in Brunswick. Most people from the Midcoast Tri Club were there this morning for the first time in months. It’s because racing season is almost over and we’re all getting back into our winter grooves.…
It’s the night before the Maine Marathon. My third marathon. And I ran my first marathon a year ago this weekend. That’s a huge accomplishment and I’m proud. Two years ago I was running the couch to 5k and it…
I’m feeling really antsy with tapering. Most races other than marathons, it’s always been like, no stress about my performance because I don’t really taper for them — they’re just steps along to the marathon. But here it is, the…
So I subscribe to this service Timehop Abe (I think I’ve only mentioned it about 100 times …) which sends me an email every day with what I did a year ago from that day. And that’s been particularly cool…
I don’t want to make another melancholy post about my recent weight trends but … it’s on my mind, its part of the experience, and to not write about it would be dishonest. First, take Tuesday. I know I need…
I came off last weekend’s race to a scarily easy schedule of 4- and 3- mile runs. Today is Wednesday, and I checked on my weekly milage ticker. I can dig it. Reach the Beach left my quads wicked sore…
Hey blog world. I’m coming to you from the beautiful outdoors, where Maine is being its best right now. It was a miserable week — rain and below 50 just about every day — but Sunday has shown itself to…
So tomorrow is my next race — my first race since the end of November! Last year, wen I was training for my first marathon* I didn’t sign up for too many races. As I was training for one big…
So, one of the awesome things about the Maine Marathon and Bay State Events, the service that is providing chip timing, is that they will let your friends and family subscribe to e-mail updates (or text messages) from the race.…
