A number of people ran in Miami on Sunday. I thought of them as I started my Timex at 6:30 a.m. Pacific. Some of them had already finished. Some hadn’t. Some are ecstatic about their 5:45 time. Some are dissapointed in their 2:45 time. It’s easy to congratulate the first timers or the relative neophytes [...]

Maybe David Byrne was right and “things fall apart. It’s scientific.” I think that’s true, except of course when it isn’t. Sometimes things come together. Sometimes they just change. Sometimes they fall apart and then come back together. Sometimes I don’t know what I’m talking about.
Sometimes?
It seems that much is [...]

It’s the Little Things
My peak monthly mileage in the lead-up to my first marathon was 137 miles. I’m hoping to hit 175 for this month. 137 sounded and felt like a LOT at the time. 175 sounds like more, and it obviously is (it wasn’t until the end of May last year that I’d run [...]

I continue to be reminded that regardless of how much I think I understand about this whole running there’s no way to predict exactly what might happen next. I’ve been pushing it lately. I’ve been running six days a week and I’m trying to drive my mileage higher than it was in the leadup to [...]

Got some good input on a commercial time-out during an earlier post. Kat makes a great point in her comment about blisters. Blisters are caused by friction. As you sweat that friction increases. You can help matters by wearing polyester and other man-made fibers, and that does help wick away the moisture. Kat attacks [...]

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.0. If you could care less, stop now and move on. Technical crap to follow.
My website sits on older white-box Pentium something-or-other that is 3-4 years old. It sits in a server room in downtown Santa Barbara next to a twin machine that holds years-old backups of the site [...]

I had a good week last week. I’m pumped. I ran 18 on Sunday and ran the last 4 miles at a steady progression. 7 weeks out from Napa and all systems are go and I feel stronger and faster than I did in preparation for Vegas.
In my previous training [...]

I’ve been asked to post my plan for breaking 4:00 in Napa in March. I ran 4:05 (chip) 4:10 (official) in Vegas in December so I’ve got to shave off a minimum of five minutes. Us middle-of-the-packers are entitled to chip times.
So, the plan. I’m running a bit over [...]

OK, so the last sentence in my last post mentioned something about a lot of running. 8 days have passed this month and I have run half of them. I’ve chalked up SQUAT for 4 out of the last 8 days.
That’s not going to cut it people. That’s not even going [...]

I planned on December being a “down” month relatively speaking, but I still ran >100. Fine. Now it’s January. The fun begins anew and with renewed vigor. “Vigor;” to me that’s a Kennedy word that’s not used much nowadays, but works for me. “Vim AND vigor” is something else entirely [...]