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From 2 to 26.2 Volume 4

This was my first week back to work and so it made the runs a little bit more challenging because I was already tired when I got home from work and the baby goes to bed pretty early and so running would take away more time with her. But it worked out great in the [...]

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 [...]