I had another running dream the other night. In this one I was at mile 20 of a marathon with 2:58 on the clock, and I thought I could still make it under 3 hours. “It’s just a 10K,” I told myself. “I can do it.” Again, I don’t know what happened as I either […]
Does anyone else dream about running? I mean actual nocturnal dreams of six-dimensional weirdness, not daydreams of greatness. Last week I dreamed I was running a marathon around Austin, but it was also a scavenger hunt. I was the only competitor and I just kept running and and running and kept getting lost. Finally I […]
“Here is the most scientific explanation of tempo pace you will ever need: Tempo pace is hard, but not so hard that you couldn’t do it 4 or 5 times a week if you wanted to. When you are finished with a tempo run you should feel invigorated, not exhausted. When fit, tempo pace is […]
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I was talking yesterday with a friend of mine who owns a fairly large company and he was lamenting his firm’s personnel problems. Namely, how do you motivate people to not suck? He says he has tried higher salaries and incentive programs and extra benefits and morale-boosting bullshit, yet still, he has to fire people […]
One of the nicest things about taking a break from running has been taking a break from blogging. No pressure to be interesting or honest or witty or whatever, no critiques of your training. But I’m back now for a short update. So I took seven days completely off from running. And nearly went insane. […]
Thanks everyone. I’m going to take some time off. Maybe a week, probably a month. I’ll swim a bit, bike a bit, run a bit, and either way, I’ll ramp up in August. For what? I signed up last night for the White Rock Marathon in Dallas on December 9th (got the early bird special […]
My friend says “periods are comedy gold”. So it’s pretty obvious now that I definitely “peaked” about a month ago. In fact, I think I can pinpoint the day and the workout of my apex. Ever since then I’ve been slower, weaker, taken longer to recover, etc. Couple that with running more miles lately, and […]