Here I sit. I have 110 miles in the bank for this month. My biggest monthly total ever. I have been saying that kind of thing a lot lately. “Longest run ever.” “Fastest run ever.” Blah blah blah. Don’t get me wrong, I love the feeling of accomplishment [...]

The Santa Barbara News-Press Half Marathon is November 5. I ran the course Saturday morning and tacked on an additional two miles. It wiped me out but it felt awsome. I ran 14 last week, but not over the HM course. Today was something special.
The majority of the course runs [...]

This month’s Running World has an article about Phil Vachon whose worked for New Balance for 18 years. He washes his running shoes once a month. He suggests that grim accelerates the breakdown of the fabric in a shoe and the dirtier the shoe, the hotter and wetter the toes because not as [...]

Paul added something wonderfully inspiring, “I have 30-40 more years to get it right!” “Yes!,” I say while crossing my fingers.

Here’s some golden nuggets from comments to my post yesterday.
Scott said, “I’m going to take yesterday’s speed bump and turn it into today’s success” This road to fitness is a bumpy one. That bumpy ride can be intimidating and not very fun. Scott’s advice is sound, take what you learn, take [...]

You know it’s kind of weird when you think about it. I guess anything becomes weird if you think about it too much, and yeah, I probably think about running too much. But I’m wandering off-topic.
What was the topic? Oh, I haven’t mentioned it yet. The topic is “Starting Over.” [...]

14 miles this morning and at work around 8:30. Tell me again what part of this is fun?
OK, hold on. I’m not wimping out here. I know that anything worthwhile takes work. It’s not all fun. I’m not in it for the fun (at least that’s not the only reason [...]

Today’s run put me over 400 for the year. It started out slow; 2.5 miles in January and 20 or less for February and March, but then it started to pick up a bit. Looking at my handy graph I can see where I picked it up beginning in July. Hmm, [...]

I have two pairs of shoes that I run in. One is approaching its last days and the other are fairly fresh. I have a third pair of older shoes that I no longer run in, but wear around when doing yardwork, etc. All three were looking gross so I stripped the [...]

OK, almost 20% of you are reading this blog using an RSS aggregator. That’s interesting (to me). I have not jumped on the RSS bandwagon, although I have coded using it and understand much of the nuts and bolts. Firefox with tabs works for me these days, but maybe this > 40 [...]