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From 2 to 26.2 Volume 3

This has been a great week of training. Personally I was able to get all of the miles in and Dad almost did except on Wednesday he mistook the my stepmom’s allergy pill bottle for the ibruprofin bottle and so just about fell asleep on the lakefront path during his run. I was a little [...]

From 2 to 26.2 Volume 2

This week saw me missing my Monday run. After a trip to Florida and just not feeling it I bypassed both last Sunday’s run as well as Monday’s short recovery run. However the other three runs were spot on.

However, Dad is still getting a bit of pain from his shin, ankle, numbness thing which we [...]

From 2 to 26.2 Volume 1

On October 10th my Dad and I are going to run the Chicago Marathon.

Today we ran 2 miles.

We obviously have a ways to go.

One of the things that I have learned from years of marathon training is patience. If you do things right and build up slow you can bypass a lot of the common [...]

And So We Are Signed Up

Yesterday my Dad came over and started doing something on his computer and then said, “What size shirt do you think I need?” I responded with, “Wait, are you seriously signing up for the marathon?” He was and so then I did and so we are all set. We have a long way to go [...]

10-10-10? or 10-10-10!

Registration is open for the Chicago Marathon and I think we should exclamation point that one. The plan right now is that Dad and I sign up for said marathon and run it together. My Dad turns 60 (!) this year and so he wants to run the marathon this year. If I [...]