So this is it…I finished my first marathon. I have to say that it wasn’t that bad for someone who has never ran more than a mile on a treadmill at the gym. The temperature was a high of 44 degrees and misty rain most of the morning. I think the last mile I [...]

This morning I woke up to the sound of rain outside; I have always dreaded the day I would have to run in the rain. So far I’ve been lucky to have had perfect weather all summer. But not today. Once I got moving out on my bike to go to the starting point with [...]

I have not been running for the past couple weeks because I had another minor foot injury (on the other foot) so I kept off it for a week. Then, I got strep so that kept me out of the loop for even more time. I am a bit worried the upcoming 23 miles, but [...]

Well, I just finished our 20 mile run this am, which we did in just under 4 hours. For the 20, 23 and 26 mile runs, we cut our pace down by 2 minute per mile, so it was kinda strange to go from running 18 in just over 3 to two miles more for [...]

So this was a pretty important run. People were a bit stressed because its kinda a tipping point in marathon training. I was stressed because of my injury. I got some inserts in my shoes, but did not get to break them in. So basically, I started getting blisters on my feet at about 3 [...]

We ran 8 miles from Foster beach to, as you can see in the picture, downtown. And back. We ran for 3 hours. Kinda amazing, some good moments of just feeling like I’m floating . It was a great run, really perfect temperature, sun was out, but not too hot. About 14 miles into it, [...]

So moving right along, we had a “break” last week and ran six miles which actually was kinda tough because I ate too much for breakfast. This weekend, I ran with the group from Foster to Navy Pier! Yes, that is 14 miles round trip. It was just right and am now seeing that this [...]

So I had a great time and didn’t totally over do it, but there were dozens of people who showed up to T’s to have a drink (or few). I have been meaning to thank people personally, but this week has been kinda crazy trying to sell my car and condo and run, etc. Anyways, [...]

This cool, rainy morning, was actually perfect weather for running 12 miles. It was a bit cool before starting off, especially because I had already biked there in the rain in shorts and t-shirt and was a bit chilled. Nice thing was, because of the rain, there were hardly any insane speed bikers and nary [...]

So it kinda goes like this…each week we increase our time and each week I proclaim “holy s***, I can’t believe I just ran n miles!” So this week, it’s 10 miles (the 10 mile marker in the pic is actually round trip). Thankfully, it was cloudy, but it was pretty “easy”. That is not [...]