137.54 miles run, which is my 2nd highest month of all-time. That’s with feeling crappy a few days in there. Not bad! 56.6 miles biked, which is my 3rd highest month of all-time. Not sure how this happened, but I won’t complain. I think it might be that I actually cross-trained on days I had

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Another weekend, another race. As Ms. Caitlin was away, I woke up at 8:15 for this 10am race, grabbed a bite to eat, dressed up, forgot my watch, and was off. Temperature was right around freezing with very light precipitation. Unfortunately, the race was on a dirt trail that is on the perimeter of the

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So Caitlin and I raced again yesterday. This time, we woke up at 5am and journeyed up to Columbia, MD, to represent our team (DC Road Runners Club) in the RRCA Ten Mile Challenge. We had no big plans (I was thinking 1:10, she was thinking 1:16:59) as this was just another part of training.

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Just returned home from another running of this monthly event. The weather was cold (35ish) and raining… I figured this might be a good shot at getting my first win, but I don’t want such a big event (in my life) to be in such a way… Good thing a guy I beat last race,

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Another race in the ’08-’09 Snowball Series. 12k comes out to roughly 7.5 miles. I went in with a goal of sub-52 (6:58 pace) and ended up with a 51:43 (6:56 pace). Nothing much to note. I didn’t taper for it except for running a few less miles the day before, and I was quite

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Last year I ran in two of these 1.875 mile races at noon on a workday. I planned on doing more, but it just didn’t fit the schedule. Fast forward to this training season and I have track workouts scheduled for Wednesdays! Why not run a race instead? So the day after the inauguration, I

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