Ah, the weather was perfect. Cool and misty, probably around 60. I headed out to Little Mulberry Park (Dacula, GA) with the intent of getting around 20 miles in. I was going to meet up with David, but he had something else come up at the last minute, so is running tomorrow instead. For those [...]
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Comments(5) Whew! What a weekend. Being 3 weeks until my next race, figured it was time to get some distance training in on trails. Being the lazy person I am, and not wanting to drive much, on Saturday I headed over to our local park, Little Mulberry. Two times around the horse loop, with 3 out-and-backs [...]
Read More..>>The other day, I was thinking about my training for my upcoming race, and knowing the people putting it on, I figure I haven’t done nearly enough hill training. Heck, I haven’t done nearly enough traing at all, but especially hills. (The other thing hurting me is all my miles lately have been road. Whole [...]
Read More..>> Comments(3) Today is the end of my 6th week of running everyday. (“The Streak.”) Thought I’d give a quick progress update: Still going strong. hehe…that’s pretty quick, to the point, not needlessly long. Hmmm. Maybe I should just stop here. Nah. I’m sure there’s a question or two out there, so I’ll answer them: Are you [...]
Read More..>>I decided to put the remainder of the Blue Ridge Relay reports over on the actual BRR blog we started. For those of you looking for the complete story, here it is: Part I: http://gonesomewhere.com/p?=215 Part II: http://coachk.gonesomewhere.com/?p=79 Part III: http://coachk.gonesomewhere.com/?p=90 Part IV: http://coachk.gonesomewhere.com/?p=103 Part V: http://coachk.gonesomewhere.com/?p=109 I think we’re all still running on [...]
Read More..>>After leaving our cabin, and noticing the road down was almost scarier in the daylight, we made it to Grayson State park in no time. Heading up the main road, we saw a couple runners coming down, and that was encouraging. Stopping at the gate, we asked the lady if we only have 20 minutes [...]
Read More..>>[Note: You can also read this on Coach K's site. He was the team captain - I was the team driver / photographer / journalist / assistant time keeper / primary food eater / etc...Part II is over here. ] Thursday, September 3rd, 2008: The morning started with a team meeting at Keith’s house – our [...]
Read More..>>For those of you who don’t know, I was out for the last 4 days crewing a team for the Blue Ridge Relay. We had a blast, and I’ll have several posts over the next week talking about it. There will be plenty of pictures too. Don’t worry, the running streak is intact. For some [...]
Read More..>>Here it is, day 29 of my streak, and the first month wrap-up. For the month of August, I ended with 92.65 miles. Not bad, I was shooting for a 100, and that’s close enough for me. (Including 7.44 miles I ran on the second. Not part of the streak, but part of the total [...]
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