April 2010

Rhode Races Marathon is coming up in less than 2 short weeks, and I'm feeling really ready.  I've had mostly great runs, and have put in more miles before this race than any marathon prior.  I overdid it in the last 2 weeks and then had a bad run on Saturday, but with a day [...]

Reposted from my Daily Mile report.  Click here for the route.  Finished 22.1 miles in 3:57:08. 4th and final of my planned long run for Providence Marathon, in 3 weeks on May 2.  Since the marathon is relatively flat, I decided to come up with a new long run route that was flat.  Best place [...]

Just back from the Mets game at Citifield.  Still energized and won't be able to sleep for awhile so thought I'd take this opportunity to write a little for my blog. This was my 2nd highly satisfying game witnessed in person this week, both ending in a Mets blowout win.  I've been to hundreds of [...]

I'm usually good about at least getting the race reports up on my blog, but I'm behind - still have not written up the March Madness Biathlon from last weekend.  For another day, perhaps... Yesterday was the inaugural 13.1 New York race.  I've had this on my radar since mid-August, when I purchased a pair [...]

Sorry to all of you that care about my training, but I've had very little time to blog about my training for the Rhode Races Marathon, coming up in 6 weeks (EDIT: umm, 4 weeks due to delays in getting this post finished!), on May 2.  My training has gone really, really well this year, [...]

Running – 82.3 miles over 13 runs.  267.6 miles YTD is a record through March.  More importantly it is 6 of 7 months with 80+ miles, a level I never, ever, reached before Sept 08, covering 14 years.  For the first time, I think I could get to 1000 in the year, considering I'm running [...]