Or, as Erin asked as part of the Runner’s Lounge Take It and Run Thursday, should you always have a training plan and, if not, what do you do? Since I’ve been running without a training plan since I ran the Marine Corps Marathon in October 2008, I obviously think you can run just fine…
Semi-Wordless Wednesday: YUM YUM!
I participated in Lil Runner’s bake sale a few weeks ago and won some Harvest Muffins from Katrina at Gluten Free Gidget. They arrived today, along with a jar of PB Loco Raspberry White Chocolate peanut butter! Of course, Shoo and I each had a muffin IMMEDIATELY! They are wonderful. Thanks Katrina!!! I’m lovin’ the…
Maine Running = Teh Awesome
Running in Maine in the summer rocks! My body is used to heat and humidity, so getting the chance to run without that resulted in some awesome runs. Besides my PR in the race, I managed to run three awesome runs. The house we stayed at (Anne’s Seaview Cottage, which was awesome) was on a…
Semi Wordless Wednesday: Maine Vacation
We are having an awesome vacation – lots of ferries, lighthouses, and beaches. Here are a few pictures of other things we’ve done. Gotta love when the finish line photographer is about 20 feet from the finish rather than at the line. We visited the Owls Head Transportation Museum. The boys loved it. Wonder why…
State #7: A 10K PR!
Short story: Today’s race was awesome and I finished in 54:49 according to Garmin (no official results yet). Settle back with a beer, the rest of the story is pretty long. Pre-race: We left DC at 7 am on Friday morning. We had decided to go the western route, rather than I-95. Travel went great for…
Running errands
I ran to do my errands today. Seriously. I ran to the mall, dropped off Beer Geek’s watch at the jewelers, ran two more miles while the work was done. I picked up a razor at CVS, picked up Beer Geek’s watch and then ran the .75 miles to the rental car place. So, a…
Sweaty four miles on very tired legs
I wanted to do a Wordless Wednesday post, but I don’t have any great recent pictures. What can I say, it’s been a quiet couple of weeks. After I dropped Shoo off at camp this morning and Jones at a friend’s house, I headed over to Old Navy to use up a rewards card. Usually,…
Takin’ what you can get
Jones doesn’t have camp this week. Shoo only has camp Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Beer Geek is working like a madman so that we can go out of town Friday morning. This leaves me trying to pack, straighten up the house, and try to run a few miles, while also entertaining the kids. Yesterday we…
Post #300: by the numbers
In the 14.5 months it took me to write 300 posts, I’ve run 1200 miles participated in 14 races (1 marathon, 4 halfs, 2 10 milers, 1 12K, 2 10Ks, and 4 5Ks) raced in 4 new states (and run in two others) met 1 RBF I’ve also been to 15 new brewpubs/breweries written 3…
Post #299
Which means tomorrow’s post needs to be awesome. I know you are thinking “what, two posts in one day?” Well, we went out to dinner to a brew pub (yeah, nothing new there) and I have to do an “Alkie Saturday” about one of the beers. My first beer was a lovely Porter. Quite lovely…
War of posts
A while back, one of these guys wrote a post about his marathon plan and the war of posts. I thought about that method of running a lot during my 6.65 mile run today. I planned to get up early and be out running by 8:00am at the latest. Shoo apparently had different plans and…
Long week = no long run
This week has pretty much sucked. Shoo ran a fever from Monday evening until sometime the middle of last night. His only real symptom other than the fever was crankiness. He pretty much wanted to be held and cuddled 24/7 and he’s not light. He also threw up ibuprofen more than once, so he was…