Simon Says...Run

After my last post, I came up with one more unbelievable thing. The Timberwolves are actually fun to watch. At least they were in their firs...

I’m not sure what’s more unbelievable; 1) It’s December 26th and I ran in shorts today. 2) It’s 50 degrees and sunny. 3) I ran 400 me...

If I had been running all year, I’m sure I’d be looking forward to skiing. However, given that I wasn’t able to run much the second half of ...

In the intro of my last post I mentioned that I didn’t believe Hall’s and Davila’s comments about the kinds of times it was going to take to...

As of tomorrow, the Olympic Trials Marathon will only be 4 weeks away. Yesterday Flotrack posted an article with quotes from the 2 favorite...

The new issue of Running Times magazine arrived yesterday. I’m pretty sure the whole thing was written with me in mind. First, the main ...

It seems like everyone has published some sort of Gift Ideas list this Christmas season. I thought I should write my own for MDRA’s magaz...

If you believe that there’s a correct pace for each workout, I’m pretty sure I’ve never trained correctly. Even when I was at my peak in col...

Now that I have a new approach in place, I started looking at the 2012 racing calendar. I’m thinking about signing up for the MDRA Grand Pri...

I've been thinking about 2012 a lot lately and my plans are to take a new approach to running and racing.  I typically don't race a ...

There’s nothing too exciting to report with my running. After two easy days of 5 miles, I’m planning on 7-8 tonight on the treadmill with 3-...

I’ve always said it takes about 3 weeks of running, after a layoff, for things to start feeling somewhat normal. As I was walking around the...

Over the last year or so I’ve mentioned wanting to branch out from the routine of just running 5K and 10K road races, along with one or two ...

Given my knee and foot issues recently, I knew I hadn’t been running much. Yesterday I took a look at my log book and was surprised to see ...

Over the weekend I was looking at a bunch of my old blog posts, including race reports and quotes of the day. I reread my Grandma’s Maratho...

As you probably know by now, I’m not very good at following my own advice. I recently talked about the benefits of running for just 30 minu...

In that Jack Daniels video I mentioned in my last post, he’s actually pretty funny. He mentions how lucky we are when we get injured. It’s...

Well, so much for jumping back into running conservatively. After last Thursday’s 1 mile run, I went 4 on Friday and then 9 on Saturday. T...

I mentioned briefly that I’ve added some biking to my routine in the form of rides on my trainer during football games on Sundays, as well a...

Quick update on my foot; I don’t have a stress fracture. The foot feels about 98% and I could probably start running on it again. However,...