I had a great day at the Philadelphia marathon today … finished in 4:02, 3 minutes better than I had planned. I ran a great race, kept my pace the entire time and finished strong. Post-race report will be posted soon….. i’m currently busy pigging out on pizza and nachos .. (I love post race […]

I’ve managed to make it through about 26 weeks of training, 2 fall marathons, a bunch of minor injuries and yet here I sit the day before the Philadelphia Marathon, ready to go. Its been a long marathon training season, and i’m definitely ready to take a few weeks off. Its ironic that my hip […]

I’ve completed my second to the last short jog before the Philly Marathon on Sunday.. it was good because the temperature outside is just about what the expected starting temperature will be on Sunday, so I was able to test out my planned outfit to see if it would be adequate, seems it will be. […]

If I listen to my own advice on tapering, I shouldn’t be worrying about what the weather is going to be for the race, but I can’t seem to stop checking the forecast for the weekend in Philly. The forecast seems to change day to day and from one channel to another, so its hard […]

I’m just under a week out now from the Philadelphia Marathon on the 22nd, and I certainly hope that the weather is as beautiful next weekend as it was this weekend (mid 50’s morning, upper 60’s afternoon). The long range forecast for next weekend in Philly is showing a 47 degree start, and 56 degree […]

Its pumped me up a bit when I received my confirmation email from the Philadelphia Marathon folks the other day … it contained all the final information for the pre-race, the post-race and beyond and it kind of reminded me that this race is just 8 days out now. I also got my bib number […]

Its been a busy couple of days, and I haven’t had a chance to post at all but have finally made some time to get it done. I completed my last real long mid-week run today of 12 miles and as I wrote in the headline .. its all tapering from here.. I expect to […]

I guess you can say that i’ve been fortunate the last couple weekends to have avoided any serious cold weather on my long runs, until today. It still fascinates me how weather people get away with predicting incorrect forecasts, and they always keep their jobs? How is that fair? Anyway, it was predicted to be […]

It feels good to take a day off from running, although as you can tell by the time of this post, I still get up in the morning just as early, but at least there isn’t the need to be up and moving and out the door. Especially this morning it feels good, its ultra-cold […]

After a decent weekend of no-pain runs, the week so far has been just as good. My back pain seems to have subsided for the most part, which has opened up the ability for me to start to push my pace again without much issue (at least for now). I’m starting to get that running […]