JasonLeahRun

Alright, fine. It’s raining out. Fine. We decide to walk because “we’ll just get too wet riding our bikes” We have umbrellas and so we should stay “relatively dry” walking. Well apparently if by “relatively” you mean “absolutely fucking soaked”!

Leah is not in her happy place today.

It’s fucking cold out. It’s raining. It’s going to [...]

Our volleyball team D0H! won 2/3 games last night. We played really well and it was nice having our full roster back on the court. For the past several weeks people have been on vacation or at conferences or going to opening day and missing games. When our team is full we are a pretty [...]

Well it’s starting kids. The training is starting. The planning is starting. The early to bed early to rise 7 days a week instead of 5 days a week is starting.

This summer will be the first summer where so far the only commitments I have are training for the marathon. With my parents gone, there [...]

As you might guess from the title of the post, we did our first real “long run” of the pre-training season. What do I mean by “real”? Why am I using so many “quotes”?

Today’s run was just 7 miles, one more than the previous long runs of our pre-training prep. However, the [...]

People. It’s really nice.

I mean. Really F’in Nice.

Around noon Jason and I went for our 2 mile Saturday run. Nothing too spectacular except that we finished in 16:16. I was trying to be right at 16 minutes, but didn’t quite make it. Considering that the last two times that we have run this route we [...]

In the April 2007 issue of Runner’s World magazine there is an article about Dathan Ritzenhein called The Making of a Marathoner. It talks about this young guys past accomplishments and goes on to talk about his recent work in marathon training. He went to be coached by Brad Hudson in Boulder, CO. I thought [...]