VA Beach Rock n Roll Half Marathon

Last year, I ran a local half-marathon event which was rel­a­tive­ly small (300+ run­ners). Angela, hav­ing work con­flicts, did­n’t run any for­mal event, but did run 13.1 miles with me on what was dubbed the First Annu­al Angela Dyer Birth­day Half-Marathon, which actu­al­ly took place last Labor Day (e.g. – not her birth­day). This year,… Con­tin­ue read­ing VA Beach Rock n Roll Half Marathon

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On The Move

Well, first, I hon­est­ly feel like I owe the world an apol­o­gy for not writ­ing more. It has been insane­ly busy the past week at work for a vari­ety of rea­sons I’m not going to go into, main­ly becuase I’m not at work now and I don’t want to think about it. I’ve got some… Con­tin­ue read­ing On The Move

Like Living In An Oven

Well, it’s around 5:30 pm here in Rich­mond, and it’s still 100° out­side. I haven’t been post­ing much at all here or even to Flickr in the past few weeks. I wish I had a good excuse, but for right now, I’m just going to say that it’s because my brain is melt­ing. I’ve been… Con­tin­ue read­ing Like Liv­ing In An Oven

Google Search Anomoly

Now here’s some­thing real­ly weird. I read about the fit­ness track­ing site WeEn­dure a cou­ple of weeks ago on Life­hack­er and signed up for an account. I’ve been using it reg­u­lar­ly. I just hap­pened to do a google search for ween­dure to see if there were any oth­er arti­cles on the site (I am in… Con­tin­ue read­ing Google Search Anomoly

Back In The Saddle (Sore)

Angela con­vinced me that we absolute­ly need­ed to do the marathon train­ing team again this year. It would be dif­fi­cult for me to put down in one post just how much we learned doing this last year. In short, we went from peo­ple who go jog­ging occa­sion­al­ly to run­ners. Here would be my top list… Con­tin­ue read­ing Back In The Sad­dle (Sore)

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Running a Successful Failure

I final­ly fin­ished read­ing the last 20 pages or so of Dal­las Smith’s Falling For­ward: Tales from an Endurance Saga on Fri­day night. This should have been per­fect tim­ing, as Angela and I were to run the Mon­u­ment Avenue 10k the very fol­low­ing morn­ing. Dal­las’1 book is loaded not just with sto­ries of his 100mi./100mi./50mi.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Run­ning a Suc­cess­ful Failure

Still Running

This morn­ing I ran my first race since Thanks­giv­ing. Sad to say, I haven’t kept up my (self-)promise to run at least one race every month of the year, as I did­n’t do any last month. What’s worse, I real­ly did­n’t run much at all last month. Well, Angela and I have at least start­ed the… Con­tin­ue read­ing Still Run­ning

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Running The Marathon

My mind, in a mat­ter of sec­onds, retraced the route I had just been on. Sure enough, I had just run a marathon.

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Marathon? Check.

Well, Angela and I both com­plet­ed the Rich­mond Marathon this after­noon. We both fin­ished in (near­ly) our goal times; Angela a lit­tle bit faster and me just a hair slow­er. How­ev­er, the impor­tant part is that we fin­ished. After run­ning, we cheered on some of the last folks com­ing across the fin­ish line and then… Con­tin­ue read­ing Marathon? Check.

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Marathon Preparedness

Marathon Pre­pared­ness Orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by super_structure. Well, Angela and I are as ready as we’ll ever be. In less than ten hours, we’ll be on the way to run­ning 26.2 miles. It’s been a long time com­ing (well, six months) and we are ready for it. We went to the pre-race pas­ta din­ner put on at… Con­tin­ue read­ing Marathon Pre­pared­ness

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