Happy Dance
This race report is about, oh, a year in coming, but I figured you deserved to know. You’ve been waiting a year, right? So, without further ado, my Chicago Marathon 2011 race report: The day …
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One down and, like, eleventy billion to go.
This felt like my first “big” weekend with the whole marathon training thing. One weekend is now in the books. And an incomprehensible number more to go. On Saturday, I had to run 7 miles …
And so it begins
So… Vegas. December. Marathon. 26.2 miles of suffering misery challenge and wonderfulness. The training is just starting to pick up and become more hard work, sweat, aches and pains and less about the pure …
Wisdom from the inside of a chocolate wrapper
“Be fearless.” Yup, that’s what the inside of the Dove Chocolate wrapper told me. And it can’t be wrong, can it? As I licked the wrapper clean of specks of chocolate (we wouldn’t want to …
My kind of town… Chicago is…my kind of… eh, scratch that.
So, after all the brouhaha, what’s become of my grand plan to race the Chicago Marathon? Mostly, it’s dead. And I’m bummed about that. Seriously bummed. In the end, good sense had to prevail: after 5-6 …
When pigs fly…
And they did! Just this past weekend at the Flying Pig Half Marathon in Cincinnati. I was a little trepiditious going into this race – as I drove into the city Friday night, I was …
I lied.
So, sue me. I’m going back on my word. Wanna know what I did this morning? I registered for the Chicago Marathon. Yup, I am going to do one race this season and train for …
Running Scared
Switching gears… I’m going headlong into marathon training for the next few months. Before this, I was intent on the half marathon up in Wisconsin (by the way, Half Marathon? November? Wisconsin??… what was I …
A mile in their shoes
(yes, I know it’s been awhile….) Pacing Duty. Some people love it, some people hate it. I was having a conversation about being the “pacer” for someone with a friend of mine who isn’t a …