Simon Says...Run

I’m trying to determine which is a harder concept to define/capture; confidence or motivation. In my last post I mentioned gaining confidenc...

  An 18-week marathon program sure seems like a long time. But then I blinked, and I was already done with 6 weeks of the training. At the s...

I really had good intentions of blogging about the current training cycle I’m in. There’s nothing like hyping an upcoming training block for...

In past marathon training cycles, I’ve almost exclusively followed Jack Daniels or Pete Pftizinger’s training plans. I don’t really know why...

I’ll start with a random thought I had on Monday, which is trash collection day in my neighborhood; Why do we make it easy for mail to be ...

  Both feet (barely) off the ground. Photo: Evan Roberts As January comes to a close, I like to think I followed my “master plan” for the mo...

10-pt Scale of Perceived Effort   Zones and Paces that align with workout intensities from Run Like a Pro Current and Goal Paces for differe...

One thing I forgot to mention about Saturday’s race and running by feel vs. checking my splits is that my first mile was way too slow. I ran...

The challenge of running back-to-back races of (essentially) the same distance is trying to evaluate them objectively. I’d love to say that ...

It’s funny that the winter that I decide to ramp up my running is the time that we have incredible snow. Just a week ago we received 16” of ...

If I go through with it, my next race will be in a month. I used to run the Winter Carnival half marathon ever year as a benchmark to see ho...

I like to read quite a bit. Included in my reading are a lot of books on running, runners, and training. I mentioned recently that I was con...