Category: Running
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Today It Ends – Race
Caitlin and I just returned from out hotel after completing the Chicago Half Marathon. We have been training for the past three months for this and our performance really showed. We weren’t sure what our pace really was going to be since we hadn’t run the 15k race as training called for, but based on
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Two Running Milestones in a Week
Milestone #1: Ran 10 miles. This wasn’t anything special, but it is the only time I’ve ever run in the double digits unless you count the time I ran home from school after my coach told me to. Turns out he was joking… Anyway, the run went dfwell. It was a slow pace down the
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Run for Leslie
Caitlin, Erin, and I woke up bright and early Sunday morning to attend the first annual “Run for Leslie” 5-kilometer race. The race was in memorium of Leslie Sherman, a former West Springfield student who attended Virginia Tech and was a victim of the shootings that took place there earlier this year. The starting line
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Balls Anyway (Running Woes)
Welp, my running for this season might just about be over. I’ve been getting shin pain as I increased my mileage and today it became ubearable. Oddly, my destination was the same as last time this occured and it’s a destination I rarely target. Anyway, I managed to hobble (walking) home. I’ll be taking the
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Today It Begins – Training
Well, technically it began yesterday, but Hal Higdon’s Half-Marathon training program has the first run scheduled today! Being the slacker that I am, I was going to go with the novice program, which starting out isn’t much different than the running I’ve been doing, but Caitlin was quick to poopoo that idea so we’ll both
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You can run (or park elsewhere), but you can’t hide.
Around 1:30pm, I receive an e-mail from our intern that his car, a 1987 Chevy Celebrity has been hit in the parking lot. Having been hit in that same parking lot at least twice in the past two years, I snap in to action. Adam and I scour the lot for potential offenders. We find