I’m going to pinball around 2024 a little bit as I catch up on this blog. I don’t plan to recap everything from 2024, but there are a few races to comment on, including these two very different trail races in September. The summer of 2024 was peppered with races that were not quite whatContinue reading “September 2024: A Tale of Two Trail Races”
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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”
9/16/20: Sodom Pond Four Mile Virtual Race
This week marked the start of the Fall Virtual Race Series for CVR, encompassing the final seven races of the season. In a departure from the previous series, this time we have a two-week window surrounding the originally scheduled race date. The first race in the series, the Sodom Pond 4-miler, had been scheduled forContinue reading “9/16/20: Sodom Pond Four Mile Virtual Race”
8/12/20: Suffrage Scramble/NSB 5K
It seems like an unreasonably short amount of time, but this year marks 100 years since women were granted the right to vote in this country. (Meaning for the first 144 years they could not – we aren’t even all that to the 50% mark of US history yet!). To mark the occasion, the CentralContinue reading “8/12/20: Suffrage Scramble/NSB 5K”
7/21/20 CVR PS Barre Town Spring Run 5K; 7/22/20 CVR PS Northfield Savings Bank 5K
My habit of training and racing without a real plan came into sharp relief this week when I found myself running 5K races on back-to-back days. I didn’t come into the week planning to do this. I didn’t really have a plan at all coming into the week. But we will get to what happenedContinue reading “7/21/20 CVR PS Barre Town Spring Run 5K; 7/22/20 CVR PS Northfield Savings Bank 5K”
6/11/20 Training Update: Mixing It Up
It’s been another week of enjoying the freedom of not “training” for anything. Other than one last CVR Social Distancing race, which turned into a bit of a disappointment, I have felt free to not put any pressure on myself. And it’s been great. CVR has cancelled all races through August, and has a newContinue reading “6/11/20 Training Update: Mixing It Up”
5/11/20 Training Update: What Exactly is Rest?
The pattern here at Joe’s Running Blog has been to provide a training update on Thursday and a race update on Monday. Last Thursday, however, I did a race update. And today, Monday, I’m writing a training update. It’s a pandemic, folks. There are no rules! As the title implies, this is a post aboutContinue reading “5/11/20 Training Update: What Exactly is Rest?”
April 2, 2020: Training in the time of COVID-19
It’s been more than three weeks since my last post. It feels like it might have been a year ago. A lot has changed since then. EVERYTHING has changed since then. Earlier this year, the novel Coronavirus disease known as COVID-19 hit the shores of the USA. It was a big problem in China andContinue reading “April 2, 2020: Training in the time of COVID-19”
3/9/20 Training Update: Not the King of the Hills
Hills are part of life in Vermont. I won’t say a “necessary evil,” because one of the reasons I am here is for the great downhill skiing. But they are difficult to avoid for any length of time. Here in Montpelier, where two rivers meet, we have some flats, but as soon as you turnContinue reading “3/9/20 Training Update: Not the King of the Hills”
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