Distance running is the ultimate humbling experience. I’ve been pondering the things I felt like I had definite control of on Saturday morning as I prepared to run the 2018 Rite Aid Cleveland Half Marathon, and came up with two: the pair of shorts I selected and what I ate for breakfast. I suppose this is part of the reckoning process when things don’t go as well as we hoped they...
It’s been over a week since I ran the CNO Indy Monumental Half Marathon, which means this recap is about 8 days past due. Spoiler alert: a new PR. Hello! It wasn’t a perfect race, and I definitely made some mistakes in the first half, though I’ve tried not to dwell on that too much. Don’t get me wrong, this was a great step forward, and I’m proud to have run a PR...
I’ve been feeling the itch to write lately, and I remembered this little space of mine sitting here neglected, so I blew the digital dust off my login screen and am sitting here wanting to say everything and nothing (but mostly everything). First thing’s first, I’m gearing up for a half marathon and training is going swimmingly. I am loving my workouts, I am hitting my goals...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…or maybe in the world of racing, it’s the other way around. We have the bad race, we doubt ourselves, our training our abilities, and then we find the silver lining and register for something else. Given this introduction, you can deduce that my race this past weekend did not go as well as I had hoped. I’m not completely...
