I’ve been running a lot of trails lately. Near our house are several miles of wooded trails that run through the flood zone of a creek. I’ve always been a little afraid to wander out into the woods alone to run them but this past summer I stumbled upon a group who runs them regularly […]
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Two weeks ago I ran the Shiner Beer Run Half Marathon. After my relatively good performance at Virginia Beach in September on zero training (and zero sleep), I went into Shiner with the intention to fully train and to give it everything I had. I tried a different training strategy this time around, focusing on
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Running, exercising and fitness, are (obviously) a HUGE part of my life. Any given day, I spend one and a half to two hours working out. At this point, I’ve run eight marathons, including the Boston Marathon (for which I’ve qualified three times), two ultramarathons, and sixteen half marathons. I’ve even done a full-distance Ironman
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Labor day weekend we made a somewhat regular trip to Virginia Beach to visit family. As is tradition Jason, his brother and I ran Rock n Roll Virginia Beach half marathon together. This year the race was unique because tropical storm Hermine moved through the day before, leaving behind a half-assembled course and 35 mph
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Hello everyone! It’s been awhile, no? I’d love to say that I’ve been absent for some super fantastic reason but the honest reason is that I’ve been overwhelmed. Oh so overwhelmed. We have spent the better part of the last year remodeling our house. Planning began this time last year. We moved out in January
It’s been a month since The Woodlands Marathon. The decision to walk at mile 15 is paying off and I am running again. My knee pain is non-existent and my shins are healing. Though my volume is reduced from my typical non-training running volume, I can now go for a 5-6 mile jog and come
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It’s been eight weeks since I qualified for Boston. You’d think that would be enough time for me to appreciate the impact this would have on my life. That couldn’t be further from the truth. A few days ago I was on my way to pick up my daughter from school and I caught myself
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Saturday I ran The Woodlands Marathon. Let me start off by saying, I didn’t intend to run two marathons in two months. When I qualified for Houston back in December 2014 I knew I was going to run it- I’d been wanting to run for years and always said that I wasn’t going to run
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For the record, I didn’t mean to run two marathons in two months. I’d been telling myself for years that I didn’t want to run the Houston Marathon until I time qualified for it and in December of 2014 I finally did. Then in January 2015 I was forced to defer my The Woodlands Marathon
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(Note: I’m not a health professional. I am merely a runner who suffered an injury related to my IT band and am sharing what I did to get back on the road.) When I hurt my knee, I didn’t do the smart thing and go to a doctor – instead I went to the internet