Yesterday was my 5 mile run at the park. What fabulous weather! About 70F with mostly clear skies with a bunch of puffy white clouds just floating along. There’s enough shade on the trails in places that you aren’t getting roasted while you run, but enough open spots so you can enjoy [...]

I didn’t want to run last night because I had been so tired this week and “dead legs” had set in, but I just had that guilty feeling of not running. Its so early in the training and it seems so lame for me to be tired already. Heck, why is 3 miles [...]

Major dead legs on the ‘mill last night. It was all I could do to keep moving. 3.0 miles at 10:00 pace. My HR hit 151, but other than that it was calm. My shins hurt during the run and I hard a hard time keeping myself running straight. I [...]

I’ve ordered my Garmin Forerunner 201 and the 4-bottle fuel belt. Damn excited to get both. I really am looking forward to long runs without carrying a bottle in my hand (although I’ve gotten used to the sloshing and found a way to hold it so as to minimize this anyway), and now [...]