4:10 AM – the alarm on my phone goes off – a mix of a loud snoring sound and the phone vibrating on my nightstand. 4:10 AM. Ugh. Am I really gonna do this? Do I really WANT to do this? 10 miles? Really? It’s 30° outside. It’s cold. It’s dark. I could just hit [...]
Archive for January, 2012
The Toughest Ten Minutes of the Day
Posted in health, motivation, training, tagged body in motion, couch potatoes, Inertia, motivation, principles of physics, running, toughest ten minutes on January 31, 2012 | 8 Comments »
I am not Tim Pawlenty
Posted in boston marathon, motivation, training, tagged finish line, iowa straw poll, lactate threshold, marathon pace, marathon training, quitting, running, Sugarloaf Marathon, Tim Pawlenty on January 18, 2012 | 7 Comments »
If you don’t follow politics at all, you may not know who Tim Pawlenty is. He is a former governor of the state of Minnesota who decided to run for President. He was part of the large field of Republican candidates who were vying for their party’s nomination. Last summer, after finishing a distant 3rd [...]
Semantics
Posted in diet, health, tagged calorie tracking, counting calories, diet, lose weight, new year's resolution, resolutions, running, semantics, weight loss on January 11, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Every New Year hundreds of thousands of people vow to change their ways, to improve themselves. These “resolutions” come in all forms, but one of the most common is about weight loss and fitness. My friend Greg over at Pre-Dawn Runner wrote a post recently about just these sorts of resolutions and why 90% of [...]
Clean Slate
Posted in training, tagged clean slate, mojo, New Year, resolution, running, training on January 9, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I have never been big on New Year’s Resolutions. I find them to be somewhat silly – seriously, if you want to do or change something, why not do it the moment you think of it? Why wait for the turning of the calendar? That being said, I must admit, there is something about wiping [...]









