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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Move It
Posted in motivation, training, tagged motivation, running, winter on December 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As much as I appreciated the extra hour of sleep the Sunday of the New York City Marathon, I have to admit, I really dislike giving up daylight savings time. It just makes it feel like winter is that much closer. I begin to hit the wall that much sooner. I reach for a glass [...]
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Posted in motivation, racing, training, tagged bonk, havefun, just finish, marathon training, running, ultra marathon training, Vermont 50 on August 26, 2011 | 8 Comments »
October 2009 – Manchester, NH. I am running my first marathon. I have aspirations of qualifying for Boston in my first marathon. How cool would that be? Of course, I’ve only been running for a little over 11 months now. My training has been haphazard, AND I’ve had to lay off the miles in the [...]
A Break
Posted in boston marathon, other, training, tagged boston marathon 2012, Boston Qualifier, BQ, burnout, mainerunnah, running, training on August 19, 2011 | 24 Comments »
I have a friend. I have only met him in the real world once. He was a large part of why I was able to qualify for Boston back in October of last year – we carried each other for 15 miles. On that day he missed qualifying for Boston by seconds. As joyful as [...]
Unprepared
Posted in motivation, other, racing, training, tagged Around the Lake Marathon, running, training, under trained, unprepared on July 29, 2011 | 27 Comments »
Tonight I am running a marathon. No, literally, I am running the Around the Lake Marathon tonight, starting at 7PM. If you are in the Wakefield, MA area this evening, please feel free to come out and cheer. I have never in the last 21 month of marathon running felt more unprepared. How unprepared am [...]
Molasses
Posted in training, tagged heavy legs, marathon training, molasses, running on July 25, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday morning I went out for what the training schedule called a “dress rehearsal” run – 7 miles with 2 miles at Marathon Pace. As crappy and as sporadic as this training cycle has been, I’m not sure why I’ve continued to stick to some of the training program, but there it us. The temperature [...]
Ghosts and Phantoms
Posted in motivation, other, training, tagged Inspiration, marathon, motivation, running, training on July 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Manchester Marathon 2009 – Mile 20 – frozen quads. Boston Marathon 2010 – Mile 20 – minor bonk. Providence Marathon 2010 – Mile 1 – buckling knee. New York City Marathon 2010 – Miles 5, 13, 20 and 22 – nausea and cramps. Boston Marathon 2011 – Mile 17 – Major bonk. The Ghosts of [...]
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