OH, WHAT HAVE I DONE NOW. It’s a new year, and with that comes the feeling yet again that all things are possible. And in that blithe, careless frame of mind, I signed up for my first ultra of 2020. Make that two ultras, actually. On the same day. I have no excuse for this. …
Author: RunBikeThrow
By day, I'm a mild-mannered Director of Training at a software company in Ann Arbor, MI. By night - I sleep, mostly. In between, I do other things I feel the need to write about. Check out fitnessat50.net to view my thoughts on running, cycling, Aikido, and other things that keep me going.
Only a Thousand
THE FIRST TIME I RAN a thousand miles in a year was in 2011, also the year of my first marathon. I’d had to step up my game that December to get the final miles in, and broke the tape, as it were, on the 29th. On New Year’s Eve I had one more run …
The Write Stuff
IT'S TIME TO MAKE one of those "put up or shut up" moves. And 'tis the season to do so, after all. I began this 2011 with the goal of sharing my journey to my first marathon and from there to my “year of being 50” celebrations, including a 600-mile bike trip and my first …
This Running Life
Life would be so much simpler if I hadn’t started running. This fall has been ten solid weeks of continual “busy mode” with any time I haven’t spent at my office job consumed with working races, running them, or travel. All my own fault; I knew what was coming and signed up for the commitments …
RUN COFFEE WRITE 