SOMETHING AMAZING HAPPENED on the mat today. Amazing to me only, I understand, but it didn’t feel any less good for that. Today was the birthday of the founder and head of our school, and our instructor decided to celebrate by making the second evening class a conditioning class. We began with sets of back …
A Strong Tailwind
A STRONG TAILWIND can make you glad you’re alive. In place of a recovery run today, I did a 25-mile ride toChelseaand back. The first leg was west, directly into a strong wind. The temptation was there to push harder into the wind, but this was a recovery day – just gear down and relax, …
The Hard Work
I SHOULD BE HAPPY with my result in the Road Ends trail race today. I beat my previous time by over three and a half minutes, and blew away my time goal. So why do I feel like the perpetual bridesmaid? My time was 38:10, well under 40 minutes. A hard, strong run, and I …
Hubris?
COACH MARIE GAVE ME 8 MILES for tonight, which I did with two at home, then six more with the downtown group. She’d assigned an 8:30 pace, but I felt so good I did a 7:24 pace for the two-mile loop, then an 8:15 for the remaining six. I feel really pumped for Saturday. Finishing …
RUN COFFEE WRITE 