Current Goal - 30 Miles/Week
> Last Week 16 Miles
> This week’s goal - 16 Miles
> Week to date - 16 Miles

Finished up the week with 16 glorious miles. I have not run this many miles since the last week of Janurary when I ran 26. Wow, this has been a crappy year on [...]

Current Goal - 30 Miles/Week
> Last Week 16 Miles
> This week’s goal - 16 Miles
> Week to date - 9 Miles

I’ve added a “Goal Ladder” section on the right-hand-side of my blog. I started jotting down some goals I’ve reached and some goals I’d like to someday reach and the list came out nicely [...]

Do you know who Robert Novak is? Do you know who Emil Zatopek was?
Bob Novak has been a prolific political journalist since the Kennedy administration. He’s a fascinating character. It was his column, you’ll remember, that outed Valerie Plame.
Anyway, he’s apparently dying of a brain tumor and in [...]

One of the benefits of keeping up an online running journal is that you’re occasionally asked to test out products. Here in my quiet little corner of blogdom I don’t get a chance to do this very often. To be more specific, I’ve had a relatively consistent online presence for almost 15 years [...]

Current Goal - 30 Miles/Week
> Last Week 16 Miles
> This week’s goal - 16 Miles

Seems like every couple of weeks something pops or tweaks or pulls and I’m forced to re-jigger my workouts. I have been steadily increasing mileage, but it’s going more slowly than I’d like.
This latest issue actualy started a [...]

Under most circumstances I don’t write the typical running blog post. You know what that’s like; “Today I ran X miles at an X:XX pace and it felt good, or bad and either something happened that was unusual, or things went down like they normally do.” I try to keep those types of [...]

The election is over and we can look forward to at least 3 months of analysis and opinion before the next election cycle starts back up again, but I did want to jot down a few notes while it’s still fresh in my mind.
They call these political “races” for obvious reasons (and that, of course, [...]

If the track is tough and the hill is rough,
THINKING you can just ain’t enough!
Shel Silverstein
I was going through some old draft posts that never made it to the big show of publication and came across the quote above. I expend a great deal of energy thinking about running and I’m the first to [...]