Sunday, I ran the 3rd annual ING Georgia marathon. My goal, sub-6 and a good time, which i suceeded with. Here are some of my thoughts and highlights. First off, I went into this one untrained. Now, some people say they haven’t trained because they’ve only done 2 long runs instead of 3 or some-such BS. [...]
Read More..>>Next Sunday I’m running the 2009 ING Georgia marathon. Woohoo! I’m not prepared in the least! Woohoo! My last long run was Feb 21 at Black Warrior! Woohoo. I did 15.5 miles on road a couple weeks ago. It hurt. I didn’t yell Woohoo. However, the 6 miles of trails in the rain garnered a bunch [...]
Read More..>>[Editor: This is a guest post from Roman, as submitted to The Darkside Running Club. The race website is http://www.ms50.com/. ] This was my first attempt at a distance greater than 50K. Billed as “easy” 50-miler, I figured it was right up my alley. I had kept this one in the back of mind for [...]
Read More..>>In a departure from my usual insightful and intellectual dialogue, today I’m going to share a story. The other day, I was sitting on a bench watching a squirrel. He ran up a big tree and across a branch that was about 30 feet in the air. He got to the end of the sturdy branch, [...]
Read More..>>Saturday, February 28, 2009 brought the running of the third annual Thrill in the Hills half marathon. Although I had no intention of running the race this year, some friends were going, so I figured I’d head over to take some pictures and get a couple miles in. Being that it had been raining for the [...]
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