I was amazed today when I headed out for my first real hill workout in about 6 weeks, that it really kicked my butt. The funny thing is that this is the same course I was knocking down easily back in early November and still yearning for more … I guess that proves to me […]

Its hard to think that its been a week since the last update on my blog, but its been a hectic week. Christmas time always causes me to focus on other things besides writing here, but I haven’t forgotten about my training. I’m almost through the first week of a 14 week training program for […]

Somehow its hard to think that tomorrow is the first day of winter after suffering through a major snowstorm yesterday. It didn’t affect my running too bad except that it forced me to go out early yesterday morning (which wasn’t necessary) and then slowed me down today as I trecked through the slushy streets to […]

Running has been pretty uneventful the last few days, except of course for the weather which never seems to disappoint me. December is the only month that the temperatures can be in the 40’s for 2 days, then in the 20’s for the next two .. its always a surprise what i’ll wake up to […]

I thought that i’d missed the cold temperatures yesterday by taking a day off from running, and although I think I missed what they call the ‘harsh’ temperatures, it was still pretty darn cold out there today. Since I’m in week 3 of recovery from the Philly marathon, I only had 13 miles on the […]

I had some strange thoughts going through my head this morning as I ran in probably the worst rain conditions so far this year. It made me think back to the original Seinfeld pilot episode that went something something like this: GEORGE: You’re gonna “overdry” it. JERRY: You, you can’t “overdry”. GEORGE: Why not? JERRY: […]

I think i’ve summed up my goal for December with the title of this post. I would think that most of us who continue to keep our running mileage up this time of year all deal with it for maybe the same reason. I’m finding that holiday parties are starting to make their way on […]

There are some who love the snow, but not me. Its been a rough week all around and now the week gets finished out with a snowstorm …. its only early December, so i really hope this isn’t a taste of whats to come this winter. Mother Nature should know that I have a marathon […]

Since I seem to have all this time on my hands these days with the reduced mileage, I took some time to look back at some old training plans when I first started competing. The goal was really to find the old training schedule I used when I trained for the Ocean Drive marathon back […]

I have to say that i’ve rather enjoyed the first week of reduced miles and relaxing after finishing up the fall marathon season on Sunday. I enjoyed it so much that I blew off my ‘turkey trot’ on Thursday as well .. I just didn’t feel like doing it and I guess when I signed […]