So far the week has been pretty good with running .. i’m slowly working through my cold despite the ongoing cough that just won’t go away. It feels like i’m losing my voice now too, that won’t be a good thing (although some might be happy for that!) We decided last night to entertain my […]

So the first week of this training cycle was an interesting one, it started out good but went downhill since I was sick. Even the next few days might be a bit of struggle because I have to get the phlegm out of my lungs from the cold I had, but that will probably be […]

Even though I didn’t feel 100% today, I still headed out for my 16 miler, and actually got in 16.4 miles along the Lehigh Canal trails from Allentown to the east and back. I knew in the first few miles that I wasn’t feeling right, not sure if I was slightly feverish or if the […]

I had a decent run on Monday (as I wrote) until later in the morning when I started to come down with the symptoms of a cold. Monday night was brutal for me and Tuesday morning I was forced to cut my run short because I just didn’t feel good. It was the right thing […]

So I just returned from the first run of this training cycle … only 125 days left (ugh). One thing I’m working on burning into my head is that I have to stick to the training plan … like today I went out too fast, I had to remember that today was a recovery run, […]

I decided to venture out today and get my 15 miler in around here instead of heading to the trails that i’ve been doing on previous weekends. The main reason is that i’m down a car right now due to some guy smashing into my wifes van, I didn’t want to park my BMW in […]

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I’ve been kind of trying to get my summer training plan together, and think that I have at least the first part of it set. I wrote a few days back that I was going to use a combination of Pfitzingers 18/70 plan, along with some custom stuff, but found out that the mile expectations […]

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I went into the Lehigh Valley Half Marathon with no expectation of breaking a PR or having a tremendous day, but I turned out running it even faster than I ran the Fairfield half 2 years ago .. finishing it in 1:42:11 (unofficial of course). The official results for the Lehigh Valley Half aren’t yet […]