Simon Says...Run

Here's my latest MDRA article... Fall is right around the corner. As a runner, that means two things to me; cross-country season and fa...

I didn’t mean for my posts to become weekly occurrences, but that seems to be the case lately. T-minus 12 days till Whistlestop and I’m not ...

Tap… tap… Is this thing on? Long time no blog. It’s been over a week and I’ve made drastic changes to my training. I figured when thoughts ...

Friday morning I did manage to register for the City of Lakes 25K. Based on how things heated up over the weekend and how crappy I felt on ...

I closed out last week with a 22 miler, giving me 80 miles for the week. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to carry that momentum forward ...

Less than 24 hours after posting about how trying to run fast takes too much work, I joined Scott at Hyland for 6 x 1K repeats. This workou...

The other day I was trying to figure out if I liked being fit more than being fast . You have to be fit to be fast, but you don’t have to ...

After a week long vacation, I'm back. Anyone want to guess where we went? Here's a hint. We had a great time; no emails, no blogs,...

One thing I’ve learned over the years is that you can’t fake the motivation needed to run well. And right now it feels like I’m trying to f...

How’s that saying go – a goal unwritten is just a wish - something like that? Well whether it was a goal or just a wish, I accomplished some...

Leave it to my friend Eric to figure out what ails me. You’ve heard of ADD, well I have ASD; The questions I asked the other day are meant t...

Turning 40, running a “bad” 10K, having a 20 miler start out very sluggish, and just a general overall malaise lately have me asking – okay,...

Unbelievable!!! That's how I felt at the end of this morning's 20 miler. No, not because of some endorphin rush after running for 2...

It looks like "aging up" helped at Sunday's race. I ended up 3rd in the 40-44 age group, whereas I would have been like 7th in...

I believe the U of M’s coach, Steve Plascencia, was 39-years-old when he placed 4th at the 1996 Olympic marathon trials. The following year ...

Ahhhhh! 40-years-old! A co-worker described it as a “monumental” birthday. I would have to agree. There’s something about it that makes ...

Hmm, where did the week go? I decided to make this a cutback week for a few reasons; 1) I started the week with a day off. 2) After recoveri...

Not a whole lot to say today, so I’ll start with a recap of my training. Saturday I joined Kim for a run at Lake Nokomis, which would allow...

Not sure what to write about the Torchlight 5K. It's been 7 years since I’ve run this race and the course has changed a little. It’s a...

This may be a new one. Yesterday I woke up at 4:45 for my run. I fed the dog and took her for a walk. After we got back the skies opened ...