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”
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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”
4/6/21 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”
2/18/21 Training Update: There’s Too Much Snow to Run!
After a fairly dry start to the winter, snowfall really picked up in January and has continued into February. The accumulating (and lingering) inches have really impacted my ability to run. I mean this in a good way – the ski conditions have remained fantastic. More days on the slopes means less days on theContinue reading “2/18/21 Training Update: There’s Too Much Snow to Run!”
1/26/21 “Training” Update: Those Winter Miles
It’s been a couple of weeks since I wrote a blog entry, and a lot longer since I have written a training update. Part of the reason is that I’ve been in a particularly busy and draining time at work. But part of the reason, I’ll admit, is that I’m not really sure what toContinue reading “1/26/21 “Training” Update: Those Winter Miles”
12/1/20 Training Update: The Winding Down
Some say that time is a human construct that doesn’t really exist in the natural world. I don’t know about that, but I do know that the calendar is a human construct. We find it helpful for planning and organizing our lives, but nature knows nothing of the calendar. It’s not like anything actually stopsContinue reading “12/1/20 Training Update: The Winding Down”
11/12/20 Training Update: Another Double Full Monty
Last year, shortly after the opening of the new portion on the east side of downtown, I decided to run the full Montpelier bike path from end-to-end each way. Before I even started my run I had decided that a run along the entire 3.75-mile length of the path would be deemed a Full Monty.Continue reading “11/12/20 Training Update: Another Double Full Monty”
1010 For 2020
Excluding race goals, which all were upended anyway, I set two running goals this year. The second, which I have written about recently, was the Map Project in which I ran all the streets in Montpelier before the end of the pandemic. The first goal I set at the beginning of the year: run 1,010Continue reading “1010 For 2020”
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