40 days left until the Boston Marathon. 40 days for me to get my act and my running mojo together. The way I see it, I have:the rest of this week3 more weeks of solid traininga 2 week taper I did 1/2 mileage last week, 3/4 mileage this week (and I cut out the walk [Read More]
Group Cycle Redux
I missed my first long run in forever the other day and tried to atone for it by taking my pity party to the Group Cycle class I frequented last year when I was injured about a month before Boston. I have to admit I didn’t feel too badly about missing another frigid run across the [Read More]
Find Your Edge
Source: Wasserman In yoga the other day the instructor kept saying “find your edge” as a way of motivating us to press just a bit harder (without rupturing anything hopefully), not enough to feel pain, or so hard that we stopped breathing, but just to that, well, edge. That got me to thinking about other [Read More]
100 Days
100 days from now I and 24 thousand and some of my running cohorts will be toeing the line in Hopkinton for THE BOSTON MARATHON!!!Yes the day is incredible and auspicious and yes the course is historic and challenging and yes the crowds are THE BEST, but to me what matters most is the journey.The [Read More]
A Final Word on Resolutions
photo: Marina Oliphant From the looks of the gym parking lot, I’d say everyone has started making good on their New Year’s resolutions. I think I’ll arrange to drop in by parachute the next time I want to workout there. I haven’t set any terribly ambitious goals.I will be a happy camper if I can: [Read More]
Blue Moon
Did you see the blue moon last night/this morning? Our very rare second full moon in a month’s time? Although the blue has nothing to do with it’s color, around here it did cast an eerily pretty bluish glow on the snow. Although I’m no astrologer, I interpret this blue moon on the last day [Read More]
Even the Best Laid Plans…
I had such high hopes for this holiday weekend mileage-wise. Modern Caveman is off, kids are out of school, the world is my oyster. The roads await. Not so fast. First we were shellacked with ice. Then came the monsoon that relegated me to a sentence on the treadmill. Balmy temps coupled with sudden shocks [Read More]
