In the spring it is very easy for me to get caught up in racing. There seems to be an abundance of local races and I have a very hard time resisting the urge to run every single one of them. Last year at this time I think I did race just about all of them (including double races two
Coming back from an injury can take a while and it’s hard not to get a little discouraged during the comeback phase. For the last several months I’ve been comparing myself to where I was last year before the plantar fasciitis started. My foot has felt good for a while now but my confidence in my ability has not been
Thank you for the kind comments on my blog, Facebook, and Twitter recently. As you can imagine it was very hard to drop out of a marathon at the last minute but it is what it is and I’m much better now- physically and emotionally! I think the hardest part was accepting reality and officially making the decision. I did
Life is unexpected and sometimes things happen that our out of our control. This was one of those weeks. Last Sunday I was coming off of a great training cycle. Sure it was lower in mileage than previous training cycles (mostly averaging 55-60 mpw) but I was injury-free and I completed every workout hitting all the right training pace times.