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 […]

No motivation to post blogs lately, so just the boring facts here. I think I’m getting slower. Saturday 6/16: The Porter/Lamar/Barton Hills loop, raining hard. The loop goes across the Pflug ped bridge and around the north side of the trail, but I wanted to add some extra miles so I went down to congress […]

I’ve been rudderless with regards to my upcoming running plan. I still haven’t picked a fall marathon or even decided if I’m going to run one at all. I’ve considered Long Beach, Detroit, Columbus, Philly, Milwaukee, San Antonio, Tulsa and probably some others. It seems my decision waffles every night. I should just nut up […]

Well, that soooooked. ‘Twas a very difficult tempo run this morning. Biked and swam last night, hot and humid this morning, and went out way too fast. 5.52, 6.02, 6.05, 6.05 = 24.06. PR by 17 seconds. First half mile was 2.49! I thought I was beyond that nonsense of starting way too fast. Alas […]

I’ll dispense with the stride-by-stride race report since I f***ing blew it, but I guess some explanation is in order. See, it went like this…. I saw Adam Reiser in the parking lot and instantly knew the race would be for second place. The start was slow with some guy out front holding up the […]