Gone Somewhere

The day started well enough. I slept in a bit, then hit Starbucks and ran an errand. The goal was to start at noon, do eight miles, then meet Roman at 5 to do another 8. After checking my email and the status of everyone else running the challenge, I was eager to get started. [...]

It never fails. Every time a big event comes up, one starts to notice every little thing that will impact it. So far, my week has been something like so: Sunday: Get in last long run. That felt great, so I’ll even stretch afterwards to make sure the muscles don’t start aching later. Aaaaah… Plan [...]

Next weekend if going to be busy with the 29 cubed race and the Thrill in the Hills 1/2 marathon. Naturally, I figured I should get some last long miles in and stuff like that. Saturday afternoon, I shot up to Runners Fit in Braselton to pick up some supplies and chat about the race [...]

Last night, some or our jolly gang ventured to the movies to see the encore presentation of The Spirit Of The Marathon. Back in January when this movie was shown as a one time presentation, it got great reviews and was sold out across the country, so naturally, they did an encore presentation. It’s a [...]

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Tonights bowling was pretty bad. This entry is nothing but me whining. I threw a 100, 98, and 116. At least the last game was over my average. Although to late into the night, I found out I wasn’t keeping my shoulders square to the lane, which was causing my whole throw to be off. [...]

A cold weeks roundup. Saturday started with a cold (around 34 degrees) run in Braselton. We had a large turn-out, 14 people I think it was, which may be the most we’ve had. We ran the Chateau Elan route. I did 6 miles, and had company for a good portion of it. The first mile [...]

I recently ran across this article on CompleteRunning.com that made me laugh. Its about the need to pee during long (and not so long) distance runs. The reason I laugh is because, well, because it’s funny. It’s a natural thing we all have to deal with. (And yes, I’m older than 13. At that age, [...]

After some errors with Active.com, I managed to get registered to the Thrill In The Hills 1/2 marathon. Last year, I photographed this race. I thought about running it, but it was right before the ING Georgia race I was doing, so didn’t want to wear myself out. This year, I’m running it and I [...]

I’ve struggled this week to come up with stuff to write about. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say, but I have plenty of choices. First off, I could have written about last Sunday’s run on the bike trails at Chicopee Woods. It was a fun time, even though we all managed to [...]

(This months newsletter column) Running, by nature, tends to be a solitary activity. Even if there are others around, we’re generally wrapped up in ourselves. “Oh, I’m getting tired” may be a common thought, but “he looks tired” isn’t so common. Even if we did think it, we couldn’t do anything about it, so we’d [...]