2018 Boston Marathon
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue The 2018 Boston Marathon was going to cap a very long, and stressful training year! Last May, I started building mileage for the
Continue reading
Category: Race Reports
2018 Shamrock Half Marathon
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue Going into the race, I had been training for the 2018 Boston Marathon since January. After lots of slow running training for the 2018
Continue reading
2018 Reston 10 Miler
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I was mid-way through training for the 2018 Boston Marathon before the race. I wanted to run my first tune-up race a little earlier
Continue reading
2018 San Diego 50 Miler
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue Inspired by the Barkley Marathons documentary and a Marathon Talk episode with Elisabet Barnes describing the Marathon de Sables, I thought I might try
Continue reading
2017 Fairfax Four Miler
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue After last Saturday’s long run to close out a 50 mile week, I started tapering for the 2018 San Diego 50 Miler! My schedule
Continue reading
2017 Alexandria Turkey Trot 5 Miler
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I ran for five days after finishing the 2017 New York City Marathon so I could break my previous running streak. Then, I took
Continue reading
2017 New York City Marathon
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I started training for the 2017 New York City Marathon in July using a training plan from Advanced Marathoning, Second Edition. My goal was to
Continue reading
2017 Bourbon Chase
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue (If you’re not familiar with relays, my race report from 2015 Ragnar Cape Cod has a brief description of how they work.) This would
Continue reading
2017 Army Ten Miler
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue The Army Ten Miler is one of the largest 10 milers in the world. It’s also one of my favorite local races. Running with
Continue reading
2017 Dulles Day on the Runway 10K
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I started training for the 2017 New York City Marathon back in July using one of the plans in Advanced Marathoning by Pete Pfitzinger.
Continue reading