Hello again, dear readers! In the months since our last checkin, I decided to finally register for my second 50K race. My first was at Pineland, in New Gloucester Maine, in 2023. That didn’t go as well as I had hoped, and I vowed at the time that it would not be my only 50KContinue reading “9/18/25: Racing as Training”
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Why I Decided to Fire My (Virtual) Coach
Last August, I broke my Garmin watch while playing catcher for my “old men” baseball team. In 2019 I bought a Forerunner 35 as my first runner’s watch, one that I selected because it was the simplest model available at the time. I wanted a watch that would record my distance and pace, and captureContinue reading “Why I Decided to Fire My (Virtual) Coach”
10/20/24: Rome Half Marathon
This one was a win for the algorithm. Sometime early in 2024, a race ad came across my Facebook feed, as has happened many times in recent years. “Announcing the Roma Half Marathon.” As readers of this blog are aware, Katie and I love a good destination race. Readers may not know that I loveContinue reading “10/20/24: Rome Half Marathon”
4/14/24 Training Update, and Kaynors Sap Run
I’ve officially completed 15 weeks of the 18-week training plan, and things are going fairly well. Yesterday was the last long run of the cycle. And now we’re on to taper for three weeks before the race on May 5. This is my second marathon. For the first one in 2022 I followed a 12-weekContinue reading “4/14/24 Training Update, and Kaynors Sap Run”
3/11/24: Time for an Update
2023 turned out to be not-the-bloggiest year for me. I’m planning to change that for 2024. First on the agenda, training updates. In January I registered to run my second marathon, the Maine Coast Marathon in Wells, Maine. Pretty much as soon as my first marathon ended in 2022 I knew I wanted to runContinue reading “3/11/24: Time for an Update”
4/15/23: Paul Mailman 10 Miler
This was my first race in three months, since the trip to Bermuda. Even so, it was a last-minute decision to sign up and run it. Katie and I signed up for the Pineland Trail Festival – 25K for her, 50K for me – which takes place at the end of May, and we’ve beenContinue reading “4/15/23: Paul Mailman 10 Miler”
2021 Year In Review: January to March
As we approach the final day of the year, I would like to take the time to recap the running adventures of 2021. It was a year of growth and development, and I am definitely a different runner now than I was 12 months ago. January began with me in good health. We were stillContinue reading “2021 Year In Review: January to March”
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”
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”
6/14/21 Training Update: Prepped for Gunstock
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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