“Today felt a little slow, even for me,” I said, as I sat down with the group at the end of this morning’s trail run. I ran the Lakefair Half Marathon in Olympia, Washington, last week when the wife and I were on vacation up in the area, and I ran it pretty hard (finished… Continue reading Accurate Perception
Golf Course Races
I have no idea how common golf course races are elsewhere, but it seems to be a semi-popular thing to do around here. I’ve been doing one (The Glow Run, which hopefully I will write about sometime) out at the golf course at the Encanterra Country Club for several years now, and the Illuminations half… Continue reading Golf Course Races
Night Runs
Night runs are awesome, and love them. Here’s why: As a night owl by nature, night runs are just going to appeal to me more than day runs right off the bat. I do most of my training running at night. You don’t have to get up at 4 AM to make a 6:30 start.… Continue reading Night Runs
My First Marathon: Phoenix Marathon 2015
I’ve really struggled with writing this post. I’m post-dating it so that it will appear in proper chronological order of my races and training, but in reality it is coming up on a year since the event. I feel like I should have some profound observations to make about it, because physically it was a… Continue reading My First Marathon: Phoenix Marathon 2015
Training for the Phoenix Marathon
I’m going to summarize 2 months of training runs into a single post, so picture a movie-style training montage, but… at the end of it, I’m running slower than I did at the beginning. So kinda like a training montage run in reverse. It would be completely inaccurate to call it the story of me… Continue reading Training for the Phoenix Marathon
Illuminations Half Marathon
Two weeks after running Ragnar Trail, I ran a half marathon. This one wasn’t really by design; I kind of fell into it, and I was really glad I did. One of my friends had pointed it out to me several months earlier. He signed up for it, and I agreed that it looked like… Continue reading Illuminations Half Marathon
Giving Thanks
In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, here are a couple of things I am thankful for. First and foremost, in the spirit of this blog, I want to say how profoundly grateful I am to be able to run the way I do. I am free from physical limitations that keep me from running,… Continue reading Giving Thanks
Running and Sleeping in the Desert With Strangers: Ragnar Trail, AZ
Say What? Last weekend (November 7-8), I did something called a Ragnar Trail Relay. I’ve posted a couple of things about it on Facebook, but largely without explanation, so I think most of the people seeing it probably didn’t/don’t know exactly what I was talking about.