ONE OF THE RULES OF LONG-DISTANCE RUNNING is to hydrate and fuel adequately throughout and following the run. The rule after that one ought to be: Don’t ignore the previous rule. Up at our campground near the Sleeping Bear Dunes for the Labor Day weekend, I prepared for my assigned Saturday 18-mile run. My plan was …
Category: Running & Cycling
Hubris and Hills
ONLY SIX MILES. THAT WAS THE PHRASE IN MY MIND Wednesday night as I got ready for the evening group run downtown. I’d been reading up on preparing for a marathon, and on one site I read the following phrase: “If you can use the words ‘only’ and ‘six miles’ in the same sentence, then …
Another Run, Another Ticket…
I SQUEEZED IN MY MIDWEEK RUN before I headed off on a business trip in Canada last week. I ran faster than my assigned time, but I felt good. My coach was nonplussed. “Save yourself,” she wrote. “You have a lot more running to do.” After I concluded my work late Friday afternoon, I could …
C’est comme si c’était hier…
SATURDAY MORNING I RAN MY FIRST EVER 18-MILER, and to my surprise I felt good all the way up to mile 16. Having someone else to run with near my pace really helped, especially with the final few miles. That said, I did pay the price; my IT bands finally forgave me this morning. So …
RUN COFFEE WRITE 