December 2011
1 post
An Epic Run with Two Things Missing....
It’s Christmas Eve, as the sun rises over RVA it’s a great day for a run. I bagged all the different group runs and decided to run solo and without a plan. The goal was about 12 miles and I had no route in mind. As I was leaving Shockoe Bottom heading west, it hit me. Let’s see how many “parts” of Richmond I could run in twelve miles. This would be great, while I...
November 2011
4 posts
Richmond Marathon - Part 4
What was that? My calf? my hammie? Why are leg muscles named after barnyard animals? Okay not all of them, but 2. Back to the problem, that pain started in my hamstring and shot down to my calf. It is gone but it, ouch, there’s another one. What the snot? This isn’t good. That’s 2 spasms in a short period. Try to breathe, keep running normally everything feels fine right...
Richmond Marathon - Part 3
Wow, glad they moved the course to Maple, there were a ton of people at Libbie and Grove. What did that sign say? “My husband loves my runner’s butt” Why do I want to know that? Oh wait, another sign - “So does my boyfriend” Yikes, there’s some advertising. Look someone wrote on the road - “Don’t poop your pants!” That could only be one...
Richmond Marathon - Part 2
Parking, parking, parking, where the hell can I park. Come on, I need a parking place. Why are there no parking places? Why are the streets closed already? Guess I should have paid more attention to street closures and suggesting parking spots. Wait, there’s one. Cool, grab my bag, my gatorade. Got everything? Check. Let’s go get snotty!
Wow, look at all the green shirts. Too...
Richmond Marathon - Part 1
For the next 4 days, RunRichmond will provide a glimpse of one person’s visualization of a Marathon Experience. You will most certainly experience something different, but hopefully this will provide you some insight into what you can expect -
Arthur Ashe Center? Where is the Arthur Ashe Center? Why can’t packet pick-up be someplace familiar? I don’t even know where this...
October 2011
1 post
Detroit Rock City!
Surgery on February 11, Detroit Marathon on October 16. The road was a long one with lots of sweat and lots of pain but it was so freakin’ worth it. Thanks to Hanson Coaching Services, some very, very special people in my life and the abject fear of failure in front of hundreds of people - I ran a PR Marathon eight months post foot surgery.
I ended up in Motown the weekend of October 16...
June 2011
1 post
June
Wow, that was close. June almost expired without a RunRichmond post. What would you have done? I could see the jumpers already. June has been really busy. Adjusting to the return of Daughter #1 from college, kicking off the 10th year of MTT and attending my high school reunion made for an interesting month in a lot of unrelated ways.
I had totally forgotten that people in their late teens...
May 2011
1 post
Up, up and away
Fifteen weeks post-surgery and great news this morning, I will never be able to start my day again without…….wait for it…..wait for it……be patient……….a Starbucks Trenta Green Tea Lemonade sweetened, holy Mother of God. Ever had one? Do yourself a favor and stay as far away from them as possible. It is seriously like sharing crack cocaine with Lindsey Lohan (I’ll deny it if you tell anyone), I...
April 2011
3 posts
Mandatory Reading
http://karagoucher.competitor.com/2011/04/20/not-my-day-but-that%E2%80%99s-okay/
This should be mandatory reading when signing up for a Marathon and then again, at the line just before the gun.
If you don’t show up, you will never know what’s possible. You may not be happy with the result, but you can always be happy with the effort.
One of my faves
“Whatever. There are no tricks. Run because you have to. Run because you love it. Run because you want to be fast. Run because you want to be skinny. Run to find some quiet time. Run to sweat. Run to eat. Run to hear your heart pound in your ears. Run because you’re a runner. Run because you gotta keep the streak. Run because you don’t know why the hell you’re running. Run...
I'm BAAAAAACK!
Guess who just got back today?
Them wild-eyed steps that had been away
Haven’t changed, haven’t much to say
But man, I still think them strides are crazy
They were asking if you were around
How you was, where you could be found
Told them you were living at the Y
Driving the rower crazy…
-Thin Lizzy (kinda)
It’s true, guess what came back today? My Run is back. ...
March 2011
3 posts
FISH!
I’ve been a coach and I’ve been coached. I have been a participant on training teams, I have paid for coaching, I have used online training schedules, I have been “self-coached” with the help of too many books to list here. I truly enjoy coaching. Working with the Marathon Training Team for two years as a participant and then the last seven years as a coach has definitely been the...
Warning – this post will not make you want to go out and run. It may make you want to throw-up but read the whole thing – it finishes on a high note!
What a week in sports? One of the great weeks of the year, especially for college hoop fans (count me in), has been even more interesting than usual. A few folks should be ashamed of themselves, and one stood above the rest.
The head football...
Something to be learned from barefooting
This blogging shit is hard. I have no chance of coming up with interesting words on a regular basis.
Since I am not running or cycling (but at least I am walking without the assistance of crutches, well, kind of walking, kind of hobbling) I find I don’t have much to say. This extra available time (ends up my sleep patterns are firmly controlled by my workout schedule, no workout, not much sleep)...
February 2011
6 posts
My Run
How excellent, no need to rush to work in the morning. I can set the alarm for normal time and get a few extra miles on the road. Weather looks positive…..oh, wait there’s a stupid post-op shoe on my left foot. Plus there is a pair of crutches laying on the ground next to the bed.
If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never was....
Anonymous asked: Who, what, where, why, how is a Snot Rocket?
Tempo Run or Snot Run?
So ask 100 runners to define Tempo Run and you’ll get 95.75 different responses. Why is that? Part of the reason is that Tempo Run has become the cool catchall term. Everybody is doing Tempo Runs when they are not sure what they are doing. Think about the term, Tempo Run, not very descriptive is it? You could just as easy say Pace Run or Rhythm Run. Some call it an anaerobic threshold or...
Be Progressive!
What’s your favorite workout? Intervals, time-on-feet, hills, fartleks, tempo (define that one), plyometrics, track, 5K, 10K, 15K, Half, Marathon, Ultra?
Yes, races are workouts too. What is a workout? A structured period of work designed to improve a specific facet of your running ability. So, when racing are you not learning? If you don’t learn something when you are racing,...
Hello Neuroma....
Hello Neuroma, I said with contempt.
Hello Sean, it said in a mocking way.
Anyways, today’s run wasn’t about tempo, pace, intervals, endurance, fartleks or form. It was about remembering. Remembering why I run, what it will be like when I get to run again and how peaceful even twickory can be at 5:45AM. I had to run this morning. It didn’t matter whether it was snowing, raining, sleeting,...
Preparing for Recovery
At the end of this week, Dr. Mark Jones of West End Ortho Group will be cutting my foot open, with my permission. Hard to believe, even for me. The neuroma that developed about 18 months ago has successfully lived through orthotics, multiple injections and rest periods. In fact it has thrived. Growing from something that would create some numbness at times to an angry alien that resides...
January 2011
1 post
