Sometimes life is too serious and we need to laugh at ourselves. I saw this topic on A Lady Goes West yesterday and it made me laugh… and think about what I’m an expert in. After all, we all have skills. Some of them we learned, some of them we come by naturally. Some of…
Category: hills
Hills as speedwork
Lately, I’ve been feeling slower than slow. I’ve run so many long slow miles to build my endurance that my legs have forgotten how to turnover quickly and my mind freaks out any time my heart rate goes up. A little voice in my head keeps saying “No, slow down! You have a lot more…
Visiting Skellig Michael
Update: Apparently this won’t be off the beaten path for long. Rumor has it that they will be filming part of the Star Wars movie here. Beer Geek tends to like to do things that are a bit off the beaten path. When he heard about Skellig Michael, he let me know that it was…
If all else fails, run hills!
I enjoy running. I don’t generally need someone to force me to run. Having to force myself to run is an infrequent problem. (I’ll admit, it does happen sometimes. And when it does, I will do something else if I have the option. Other times I’ll whine about it but do it anyway.) So, getting…
Blue Ridge Half Marathon Race Report
The Blue Ridge Marathon bills itself as “American’s Toughest Marathon.” I’m here to tell you that the half marathon is no joke either. It was definitely the hardest race course I’ve ever run on. Short story: I finished in 2:20:48 (my slowest half where I wasn’t pacing someone), 13th in my age group and darned…
Searching for balance
Like almost everyone I know, my life is busy and it’s a challenge every single day to accomplish what needs to be accomplished. In fact, I don’t really search for balance in my life, so much as I try to make sure that every piece of my life gets to be the priority at one…
Hill training and barefoot running
No, not at the same time, although I did consider running my barefoot mile outside. Yesterday was the boys’ last day of camp up in the hilly part of our county. I decided I should take advantage of that. Where we live isn’t flat, but these were Serious.Hills. I ran a nice little mile warm…