Looking Back

This thought has been hanging with me for awhile, but thanks to two recent blog postings I came across, I was reminded to write about it. My best marathons have come on hilly courses, NOT flat ones.  What?  Doesn't make sense, you say?  If you think about it, it kind of does make sense, because [...]

As you all know, I'm not so great at posting here anymore.  My we've come a long way (and in the wrong direction) since I posted for 28 days straight leading up to the 10-10-10 Chicago Marathon! Anyway, this post concludes the 'highlights' I wanted to point out regarding 2011.  Find Part 1 here.  Upon [...]

Hey, I'm still here, just haven't been motivated to write in my blog through injuries I had in the spring and summer.  I had a very busy winter and spring of training and racing, and after a marathon, half marathon and olympic distance triathlon within a 4 week period in May, I needed a break.  In short, I [...]

Don't quite know why but I was inspired to click the Dec 2008 month in my blog archive, and I just had so much fun browsing the entries.  That was in the day where I did a lot of blogging, before Dailymile took over as a place to log my daily workouts and in the days [...]

I had an epic running week this week, at least for me.  I ran 9.9 miles on Tuesday, 5 on Thursday, 5.1 on Saturday and 20.3 today.  My total for the week was 40.3.  While many of the people I follow on Twitter and DailyMile can do that easily, for me this is a huge [...]

4 days to the Chicago Marathon!  And I'm thinking about time predictions... I'm very proud of my marathon history.  I've run 12 marathons over the last 14 years.  I have many that were disappointing for one reason or another, and many that were kick-ass awesome.  It is fun to periodically look through the results and [...]