Category: Running & Health

Generally I have good associations with being in public races. I like the positive energy, the music, the support of friends and family videoing their loved ones as they run by, the…

As a runner, my relationship with speed has evolved quite a lot in the past three years. My speed has moved in one direction–down–with each marathon training, as I find a comfortable…

Oh man, I am so excited by how today’s run went! Things didn’t start quite so positively. I awoke in the early hours obsessing like I had been since last Sunday’s 27.5…

Interesting how concern can change in an instant to relief, then optimism restored. As of yesterday, my legs were still a bit sore from Sunday’s run. As yesterday’s post suggests, I was…

Two days after running 27.5 miles, I’m of two minds about it. On the one hand, I am very happy to have successfully run the marathon distance (plus over a mile) once…

This Sunday will be the culminating training run of my marathon program. Officially, my training calendar calls for a 29 miler (!), which I was planning on doing until my 26 miler…

It’s official. Today for the first time I departed from my training schedule. I was supposed to do mile repeats, which are when you run for a mile at a faster pace…