JUST FOUR WEEKS TO GO UNTIL CHICAGO and my first marathon. With 20 miles still feeling like it’s my physical limit, how I’m going to coax out 6.2 miles more remains a mystery to me. I mentioned this to a friend of mine at Zingerman’s Bakehouse (a great place to go for pastries and running …
Category: Running & Cycling
Sugar, Salt, and – Soap?
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 …
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 …
RUN COFFEE WRITE 