A Passion for Running

Welcome to the home of Mark aka The Running Blogfather - a 40 year-old dad, husband and marathon runner who’s beaten injury and is on the comeback trail!

exhaustion, invigoration, gratitude and belonging

passion for running category: running on Monday, August 21 2006

The happiness I’m feeling right now is pretty overwhelming. As you may, or may not know, Aaron and I, and a whack of truly tremendous people have re-launched Complete Running as the Complete Running Network.

I’m like a proud daddy. Proud for what we’ve managed to pull together, but even more proud of the team we did it with.

The hours I’ve put into this baby this past month or so have been staggering and just yesterday, I felt (for the tenth time) that I was at the point of breaking down from exhaustion. But the relaunch is exciting and it’s rejuvenated me. I am so stoked about this!

And I’m so grateful to all of you who’ve made this possible. Aaron, Chris, Jeanne, the amazing writing team. All of you.

I belong to something really special. Actually, I belong to two special things; The Running Blog Family, and now, the Complete Running Network Team.

Just try and wipe the smile from my face. I dare ya.


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Comment by Linda

Monday August 21, 2006 @

Congratulations! Great job.

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Comment by Anne

Monday August 21, 2006 @

It looks fantastic, Mark. Congratulations on the launch. Now get a little R ‘n’ R while you can.

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Comment by runr53

Monday August 21, 2006 @

Nicely done! Kudos! Whats next, hehe?

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Comment by jeanne

Tuesday August 22, 2006 @

you da man! no, you da blogfather! You worked like a madman. And look at what you did!!

The amazing part? never once did you get cranky. Unlike SOME other people I know. Intimately.
:)

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Comment by Yvonne

Tuesday August 22, 2006 @

awesome! break out the cigars! looking forward to checking it out.

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Comment by BD

Thursday August 24, 2006 @

Congratulations!!! This is an amazing accomplishment. Complete Running continues to grow, evolve, and change the lives of runners (and non-runners) everywhere.

I have to thank you for all of your informative articles about the Pose Method. I had been trying to do many of the things on my own but learning about Pose and more about the techniques helped me to improve my running. I ran a 7:02 pace in a 10K and my current quest is to run a sub-6 minute mile on a route with the first half mile going uphill. Also, the articles on injuries, unfortunately, have been useful as well.

Thank you for everything!

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Comment by Laura

Friday August 25, 2006 @

Beautiful job on the site Mark. I am thoroughly impressed!

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