AM I IN TROUBLE WITH GOD? Today was my first run since completing the Run Woodstock Weekend Challenge last Sunday. Kept it short at 8.7 miles, which felt good but enough, plus I needed to save energy for an Aikido clinic this afternoon. Anyway, it put my running distance for the year at exactly 666 …
Continue reading Woodstock, continued – A Fall, A Call, and A Stall
"SO WHAT TIME ARE YOU TRYING FOR?" some people asked me on Friday, referring to my 50K run the next day. This being my first ultra, I had no idea. But adjusting my average marathon time for another 6 miles, I came up with a SWAG (*). "Oh, around five hours," I said. Oh, the naivete …
Continue reading Woodstock, Day 2: Muddy Shoes and Iron Legs
I LOVE RECOVERY DAYS. No agenda, no distance requirement, no target pace, just a 16 mile easy cruise on the bike after work, squeezing every drop out of another beautiful warm evening. I won't run until the weekend, but there will be some Aikido classes and a session at Body Specs to keep me going. …
RUN WOODSTOCK 2012 IS DONE, and I have successfully completed the Weekend Challenge! What does that mean? Basically, it means I completed the four events that made up the Weekend Challenge, including a 50K ultramarathon on Saturday. But Run Woodstock was about a lot more that just that - let's just say it was aptly …
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