Just returned home from this absolutely grueling race. I was on a team of three in the beginner group (fitting since I mountain bike maybe once or twice per year). Not sure if I’ve shared the story yet, but I found a “random” team with a free spot on the local mountain bike club forum. After speaking with the team organizer for a week…
I’ve developed my plan and with this week almost complete (due to my bike race on Saturday), I’ve kept to it! I tried to put it in a format that would be embeddable in this here post, but it was going to be a lot of effort. Click here to see the export from Word. If you are planning something any time soon, take…
For my third and final (thank God!) race of the week, I journeyed on over to Fletcher’s Cove to celebrate the 41st anniversary of the DC Road Runners Club (and to race four miles). I didn’t really have a goal for the race, but I had predicted a time of around 26:00. Oddly, this was the third longest race I have ever run (behind…
Just returned home from my 2nd monthly Tidal Basin 3k. Finished in 11:04, which is two seconds slower than my time last month. As recent results have shown, I don’t think I’ve gotten any slower so I’m going to attribute the time due to my recent workload (raced two days ago, have done 19 miles in the past seven days as opposed to 12…
I’m all for conserving resources, reducing waste, etc. I do not drive to work, I have many compact fluorescent bulbs, I drive a car that gets 30+ MPG and was not built specifically for that purpose in recent years (the energy that goes in to making a new car is astounding), I have a programmable thermostat, I use reusable grocery bags, I do not…
I’ve actually done no preparation (on my plan) at all since I had planned on working on my 5k goal for a while longer, but that came to a very surprising end tonight as I finished the Run After the Women 5k in 18:56… over 40 seconds faster than the adult PR I had set just a couple weeks ago, but following/during a heck…