A couple of months ago I was perusing Facebook, which informed me that one of my friends “liked” the Gunstock Trail Fest, a weekend-long series of trail running races in the Laconia, New Hampshire area. The festival looked interesting, but wasn’t something I was seriously considering. However Katie was looking for a trail race toContinue reading “6/14/21 Training Update: Prepped for Gunstock”
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5/29/21: Infinitus 8-Mile Trail Race
This went about as well as it could have. One of the reasons I include training updates in this blog is to have a record of input (training) and output (race results). Or, to use a financial term, Return on Investment (ROI). And today’s race provided a pretty decent ROI. We can also track myContinue reading “5/29/21: Infinitus 8-Mile Trail Race”
5/27/21 Training Update: Ready for the Trails
In two days, I am entered to run the 8-mile Infinitus Race. Infinitus is a series of “rugged trail races” presented by The Endurance Society. While I am sure I am underestimating the course, the 8-miler is only one that seems “do-able” to me. The others range from the ridiculous (trail marathon) to the insaneContinue reading “5/27/21 Training Update: Ready for the Trails”
5/11/21: Adamant Half Marathon
Just two weeks after the Paul Mailman Ten Miler, the next race in the CVR season is the Adamant Half Marathon and Relay, which starts and finishes in the lovely village of Adamant in Calais, Vermont. The course is a figure 8 with an 8-mile loop through East Montpelier followed by a 5.1-mile loop throughContinue reading “5/11/21: Adamant Half Marathon”
4/24/21: Paul Mailman Ten Miler
What a difference two weeks, or three miles, or 15 degrees (or all of the above) makes. I was looking forward to this year’s Paul Mailman as an opportunity for growth and redemption. Growth in the sense that I would be able to measure continued improvement on this course. As you may remember, my firstContinue reading “4/24/21: Paul Mailman Ten Miler”
4/22/21 Training Update: Right Back To It
By now I’m well into year three of being a Serious Runner, but I am still new enough that I put things into the perspective of my earlier experiences. I am analytical by nature, and I like to use past results to inform current strategies. Of course this is all centered around races, because otherwiseContinue reading “4/22/21 Training Update: Right Back To It”
4/10/21: Half Marathon Unplugged
I was excited for this race, as it was to be the first half marathon that I’ve run twice as a live race. Adding to this was the fact that the first time I ran the race, last October, I set my PR for the distance. It’s a flat and fast course in a funContinue reading “4/10/21: Half Marathon Unplugged”
4/6/21 Training Update: The Vaccine Bump
It is interesting to consider the relatively short history of this blog. I originally started this about a year and a half ago, both because I wanted to remember the races and other significant running achievements and because I wanted to document my journey and growth as a runner. But just about the time IContinue reading “4/6/21 Training Update: The Vaccine Bump”
4/1/21 Training Update: 9 Days Until a Real Race
We are now more than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic (or should that be capitalized: Pandemic?), and in the time since our society locked down I have run in only one live race, the Half Marathon Unplugged last October. That race had several staggered starting waves, and was completed just at the start ofContinue reading “4/1/21 Training Update: 9 Days Until a Real Race”
3/23/21 Training Update: Training Update
Man, has it really been over a month since I posted here? Time flies! I find that it’s sometimes difficult to decide exactly what the “training update” is, because priorities are mixed up in the winter. Actually, not mixed up at all, as skiing is top priority when I can get it. Running takes aContinue reading “3/23/21 Training Update: Training Update”
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