Uisge Beatha

Well this week has been pretty laid back as I recover from the marathon. Monday I was pretty sore and I got hit with a cold pretty bad. Mi...

I crushed the marathon today, crossing the line with 3:32:45 on the clock. We'll see what the chip time gives me. The Denver Marathon ...

I picked up my race packet yesterday and so far I am impressed with the quality of the race. Of particular note are the Saturn cowbells fo...

Only one more week until the marathon! The taper is going well, I am down to 38.5 miles this week from 57 during training. Today's 11 ...

Well September has gone by so quickly I barely knew it was there. With 232 miles for the month it has been a lot of hard training. But wit...

I was rockin' today for my 18 mile run. I finished it in 2:32:53 which is an 8:30 min/mile pace overall. It was not too hard of an eff...

Did my third 20 mile run today for this training schedule and as a confidence booster this one was tops. I finished strong, right at marath...

I capped off this week of 54 miles with a nice 16 this morning. I have to say it felt like almost nothing to crank through the miles, which...

No there is too much, let me sum up. This was a great week of running for me, 4x1600m at the track on Monday I was hitting at sub-7:00 pace...

Today was the first day in a long time that I woke up and did not really want to do my long run. Last night I was up until 2 with noisy nei...

I've had some great workouts this week, but today's was awesome. 16 miles and we really pushed the pace at the end. Our last 2.5 m...

I put in 56 or so miles this week, with 18 today. It's good, I feel pretty good and I'm building up confidence for the big day. I ...

Well my new year's resolution this year was to run 1000 miles and with my speedwork today I achieved that goal. I guess now I will try ...

This week marked a return to full-time training with 61 miles for the week. Of course part of that was the 20 miles I did today. I decided...

Boy it seems like every week is a new barrier to my training. This week I got sick on Tuesday and was laid up for a couple of days with not...

I have learned that flexibility in a training program is a key to success. That has really been apparent over the past couple of weeks. Tr...

Boy I've been out of the loop with this vacation. Although it's nice to have a break from the internet and phone for a few days. I...

Did a run with the kids today in the joggy stroller. It was nice to have the time to go with them. Lately it's been too hot, or I'...

Well with today's long run I broke 200 miles for the month of June. I'll break 800 miles for the year early next week! Today's...

We watched "The Prestige" last night even though we aren't usually up for much at night any more. When you are tired at 9:30 ...