I’m just one week out from running my 6th marathon, the Mayor’s Midnight Sun Marathon here in Anchorage a week from today. This is my first marathon since last October when I ran the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., making this my first marathon as a Marathon Maniac – you bet I’ll be wearing […]
If you had any fantasies about your Garmin (or other GPS watch) being infallible, let me present this to you, the elevation chart from my 1/2 Marathon over the weekend: I had no idea at the time, but apparently part of the race course took us all the way down to 800 feet below sea-level […]
Spoiler alert: HOLY PR BATMAN! Going into this race, I said that my goal time was 1:42. Of course, in the back of my mind, I had a “stretch” goal of 1:40. I planned to run the first half on pace for 1:42 and see how I felt after that. The weather was perfect (overcast, low […]
This Saturday I’ve got my first “big” race of the year, the Glacier 1/2 Marathon. I already saw at my 10k 2 weekends ago that I’ve picked up a lot of speed over the winter, knocking around 9 minutes off my time from the previous year. Since the snow and ice have melted, and I’ve […]
The short version: I absolutely LOVE these shoes! The longer version: Altra is a relatively new shoe company that makes a line of zero drop shoes. Zero drop means that there is no difference in height between the heel and the toe of the shoe. For comparison’s sake, a pair of “regular” shoes typically have […]
