Sharon Woods is always beautiful. The shade really helped. Today I went to Sharon Woods for an 8-mile long-distance training walk. As I’ve mentioned before, my training is a little bit off right now, so 8 miles is a pretty good stepping […]
Over the last couple of weeks, Ohio has had unbearable heat, I took a vacation to a place with even worse heat, I’ve been over-worked and then I started to feel sick. Yesterday, the temps were mild, I felt great, I was […]
We are in Oklahoma for a family reunion. Most of my husband’s family lives west of the Mississippi with many of them in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas. (My in-laws were from Cherokee, OK.) I knew it tends to be hotter out […]
The Buckeye Striders met at Sharon Woods park today to do our long slow distance. Several of us training for the Air Force Marathon (Half) were scheduled to do 8 miles today, so we started at 7 a.m. When I say we […]
For today’s speed workout, I wanted to see how fast I could walk a measured 1/4 mile. There are 1/4 mile marks along the roads at Griggs Reservoir, so I did the workout there. After a 1-mile warm up, I walked as […]
Don’t you hate it when people throw your own advice back in your face? Me, too! Here’s the back story.A few months ago I listened to a podcast interview with Adam Carolla. Near the end of the conversation he gave some advice […]
My friend Deb and I met bright and early today for this week’s long-slow distance. We are training for the Air Force Half Marathon in Dayton this September, and we were scheduled for 7 miles. We went to Sharon Woods, which has […]
It’s pretty easy to keep up your motivation to train when you have a race scheduled — especially if it is a longer event that requires months of training, such as a marathon or half marathon. What is tough is maintaining your […]
The start of the 2011 Columbus Marathon from a walker’s perspective. The headline in today’s paper — Marathon Deaths Rare — caught my eye. Even though I knew it was true, people died in two different races I was in. And the […]
Me with Elvis during the 2006 Cincinnati Flying Pig. There are a ton of great races being held this weekend! The Indy Mini Marathon is tomorrow. The Cap City Half Marathon is tomorrow. The Flying Pig is Sunday. And this is the […]
