The 2021 race season came to an end (I think) with the third Fallen Leaves 5K of the year. In race #1 I maintained my streak of running each race faster than the one before. I missed race #2 due to the Race For DFL. The latter race would have an impact on my chaseContinue reading “11/20/21: Fallen Leaves #3”
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11/13/21: The Race For DFL
This is a race that was not even on my radar – in fact, I had never heard of it – even two months ago. I didn’t decide to enter until three weeks ago. I didn’t have time to implement any sort of training plan. Yet on this Saturday morning, I was at Chesterfield GorgeContinue reading “11/13/21: The Race For DFL”
11/6/21: Fallen Leaves 5K #1
The past few years I have noticed October being unseasonably warm. And also the last few years I have noticed a rapid transition to colder temperatures in November. I remember this most because the Fallen Leaves races have been accompanied by cold temperatures and sometimes snow. The 2019 races in particular featured Arctic weather. TheContinue reading “11/6/21: Fallen Leaves 5K #1”
Today’s Run: Calais
Today was a good day for a car run. “Car run” is a term that I just made up, meaning you’re already in the car so you might as well take the opportunity to drive somewhere different for a run. Since I work from home, I’m not in the car all that much, so mostContinue reading “Today’s Run: Calais”
10/31/21: Autumn Onion 5K
There are races that you do to race, and there are races you do for fun. And while in some “fun” races you try to be competitive, others are really best considered as nothing but fun. A Halloween 5K in costumes? In the pouring rain? I mean, if you can’t let your competitive spirit takeContinue reading “10/31/21: Autumn Onion 5K”
10/25/21 Training Update: Some Next-Level Shit
When I first started running, it was pretty much a solitary endeavor. While others may have inspired me to, for example, sign up for my first race or two, I for the most part was doing the actual running on my own. This changed in the second half of 2019 when I started joining CVRContinue reading “10/25/21 Training Update: Some Next-Level Shit”
10/17/21: Heady Trotter Four Miler
Over this past weekend, I had friends who: ran a half marathon, ran a full marathon, ran a 50K ultramarathon, and ran a ridiculous 100-mile race. I had a friend who ran a five-plus mile race, but it went up an 1,100-foot mountain twice, the day before running the same race I did. The raceContinue reading “10/17/21: Heady Trotter Four Miler”
Today’s Run: Siboinebi Path
Today is a Federal holiday. Once named for a pretty rotten European man who supposedly “discovered” the Americas, it is now known in Vermont (and a few other places) as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This day is now meant to honor the original inhabitants of our land, from whom it was stolen. This is a lower-keyContinue reading “Today’s Run: Siboinebi Path”
9/22/21: Sodom Pond Four Mile Run
In starting this post, I feel like I am remiss in writing a race recap without having given a training update for a few weeks. Nevertheless, this is where we are. It turns out that it’s easier to run with a broken wrist than it is to type. My last post was nearly a monthContinue reading “9/22/21: Sodom Pond Four Mile Run”
Training Update 8/23/21: Bolduc and Sunnybrook Long Run
For someone who is supposed to be training for a 15-mile trail run in three weeks and a half marathon two weeks after that, my planning isn’t always ideal. Sometimes this is impacted by things outside of my control, like weather and other obligations – in my case, my baseball team’s schedule. On September 11Continue reading “Training Update 8/23/21: Bolduc and Sunnybrook Long Run”
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