I survived my week without my family and my weekend with my college buddies. No hamstring pulls, lost wedding rings or near death on I-35. It’s good to have life back to normal, though I’m actually on vacation this week. Rest up before the storm of school and soccer and all that. I managed 60 […]
My family left this afternoon for six days in California. I already miss them and don’t know what to do with myself. So I’ve been eating. Just polished off the “Candy Bar Classic” ice cream. Any cookies in the house? Anyway, my first “official” week back from my running hiatus was last week and I […]
Do you see it? Joshua, age 5, July 2007: Me, age 6, circa 1977:
I was going to write about my first week back to Gazelles, my official start of marathon training, the tempo run today, the achilles update. But that all seems so lame after learning more about by Grandfather (more on that in a moment), so I’ll save it for another post. I found out the other […]
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 […]