This past Saturday morning I was just itching to get out to Afton and put in a long run. I arrived promptly at 6am and gathered my thing and hit the trails. Though I brought my lamp I ventured in to the darkness knowing the sun would be joining me shortly. With my gloves on [...]
It seemed the stars aligned this week and wouldn’t give me time to get out and run. With my wife getting back to school and no mommy daycare my boss was gracious enough to let me work at home to be with my daughters. This all sounds well in good but its mighty hard to [...]
Well it’s done, I made my mind up this morning during an early morning run to go through with it. I’ve signed up for the Surf the Murph 50 miler this October 30th. Stay tune for training reports, emotional ups and downs and the actual race.
In the last couple weeks I have been lucky enough to meet a bunch of local runners out at Afton and see first hand how some of the more veterans train. And to my surprise it isn’t that much different than what I do. As we move along through the course the conversation centered around [...]
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I remember taking a quick look at my Garmin down on the flats and was pleased to see a number there I have only seen 4 times before. The number 26.2 quickly told me that I as a runner was entering into nomads land, I had already run longer time wise than ever before but [...]
Though I’ve had the Afton Trail Run my schedule and front of mind for some time now it kinda crept up on me. I think I put it on my race list back in November when I was sidelined with an injury and at the time it seemed so far away and I think this [...]
Marathon number 4 is in the books. Sunday morning arrived early with me staring at the clock reading 4:15. I never sleep well the night before a race and for that matter long runs so this was old hat for me. I patiently waited till 4:25 got out of bed, showered and dawned my race [...]