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Flashback to December. The race season is done and the miles are in the bank.  Winter Break. A well-deserved feast of low miles and high caloric input.  The runner’s bacchanalia. 11 months of the year we set the alarm at 4:30 AM, lay out our running gear, curse the forecast, decline the invitations...

Do ya’ feel lucky, punk? – Clint Eastwood       After missing the Boston Marathon cutoff by 2 seconds last year and 1 second this year, I do not feel particularly lucky.  But I do feel fortunate.  And hopeful.  We were able to turn that 2 seconds last year into $12,000...

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.  – Sir Edmund Hillary     If you prefer your race reports in gritty living color, take a look at the video shot on the course . . . then I’ll give you the play-by-play of what was going on in my head that could not be captured...

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”  -Henry Rollins, Punk Rocker, Poet and Wannabe Ultrarunner The car pulled into the Mobil station in Canal Park, headlamps illuminating ghostly apparitions.  It was 2:45 AM on the morning of Grandma’s...

To everything there is a season. – Solomon, Biblical Author and Ultrarunner How do you mark time?  Semesters, mortgage payments, elections, heartbeats, movement of the stars?  For compulsive runners, it’s the annual marathon . . . the one you were going to do just that one time.  One and...

I am running the 2014 Boston Marathon in support of Ironstone Farm and the work they do to help kids and adults with disabilities.  To learn more about why this particular organization is so important to our family, CLICK HERE. Plus, for a short time only, you get a psychological FREE PONY with every...

Mile 92 We had been at this for about 18 hours. I was not moving well, but I was moving.  My mind was not working particularly well either, but I surprised myself with this very lucid question, “Why am I doing this?”  I could not come up with a good answer. Back eight hours or so ago...

It was a good day for running the Boston Marathon, but it was not a good run.  I knew a few miles in that it was going to be a struggle.  My ankle felt OK, but the weeks of missed training due to rehab had taken their toll.  Despite the disappointing time, there are few thrills in running greater...

BUCKLE BABY! Take a look at the video of the journey and we’ll talk in a few minutes…                  Finished in 28 hrs 1 min and 27 secs and shaved over an hour off of last year’s time.  But, quite frankly, none of that matters all that much.  While I will not...

This past Sunday I learned that a strict regimen of undertraining and overtapering can pay off in the most satisfying of ways.  Forget eating your vegetables.  Toss out any thought of early to bed and early to rise.  And the Golden Rule?  Nonsense.  Don’t believe any of it.  The path to success...