My son not only plays many sports, he likes to watch sports on TV and shows about how to play sports. Because of his interests, I started watching a show called Sport Science that airs on Fox Sports. This show is a […]
Today Deb, Elaine and I were doing a light hill workout before the half marathon Saturday. We got to the top of the hill at Griggs Reservoir when a gentleman hopped out of an NBCi car with a camera man and said […]
I saw a recent blog post about runners’ pet peeves. The ones mentioned mostly dealt with runners following too close to another runner, run/walkers who repeatedly pass the same person then walk and dogs not under control. I can relate — those […]
Kara Goucher won the first Rock N Roll Chicago Half Marathon on August 2! Let me clarify — she didn’t just win the women’s division — she won the entire half marathon beating out the next closest runner by 19 seconds! Her […]
I’m pretty loyal to shoes. Too loyal at times. I had a great pair of shoes a couple of models ago that I absolutely loved! They were light enough to roll my foot, but heavy enough that I could walk a half […]
I coerced Elaine and Deb into doing a speed workout with me today. Last week I started doing 1/4 mile sprints at Griggs Reservoir. That first day I did 6 reps. This week was a little harder — the asphalt was hot, […]
Today my training schedule called for an easy 4 miles. On my way home from work, I was positive it would rain while I was out walking. So, what should I wear in the rain? It was about 70 degrees and overcast, […]
14:36 per mile is what I figured we did today. And that was for the entire 7.8 miles we timed. (We used 0.2 for cool down.) This is not fast for many of you, but I have been hovering around a 15-min […]
This is starting to be old hat — Wednesday is hills. But as long as my friends and I continue to sign up for half marathons that are hilly, we’ll have to keep it up. Though today was humid, it wasn’t hot. […]
I’ve known for a while that the only way to be a faster walker is to practice walking faster. (Paraphrasing Dave McGovern.) I also know that if you do the exact same workouts every day, you will never get stronger. Knowing and […]
