Saturday was my third time to race in the Wildcat Road Mile. This is a small, local race that benefits my daughter’s cross country team. The mile is an intimidating distance for me and coming off a marathon recovery cycle was not the ideal time to race it. I started a little too aggressive and then lost focus on the third quarter and really ran out of steam. I pushed through and finished with a 5:30. I probably won’t be…
Racing an all out mile is by far the most intimidating distance to me. For the last three years I have raced the mile once each summer. My time has gone from 5:17 in 2013 to 5:20 in 2014 and then even slower this year with a 5:31. For whatever reason I was a little off this June at GoMile in Little Rock so I was very tempted to redeem myself when I had the chance. I had already registered…
In the world of running and racing, it doesn’t get much better than staying strong and running a smart, perfectly executed race. Usually these are the races that end with our best time on the finish line clock. We learn a lot from these races and set the bar to measure all our future races by the success we earned in that one. So what about those races we want to forget about the moment we cross the finish line? …
This weekend I took the RRCA Coaching Certification course in Little Rock. It has been a goal of mine to one day become a certified RRCA coach. I’d looked up course locations but they were all out of state and far away so I just put it in the back of my mind that I would do it someday. A few months ago our Arkansas RRCA State representative David Meroney sent out a message seeing if there was any interest…