As lot of you know I love to run, and know what it takes to complete a marathon.  As you might imagine my thoughts just go out to everyone affected by the events in Boston.  You also may have seen I fell in love with my new shoes from a great company called Altra .  It was even my honor...

To start I am runner trapped in a big guy’s body. I am 6’2” and well over 250lbs, and this year that will change! Why do I mention this? Simply because I want you to realize I switched to Altras and I am not planning on switching back. If you are a big guy or gal, I bet one of the first...

I was asked the other day why I post my running schedule to my blog and who do I post for.  I post the schedule for one simple reason, accountability.  I find posting my schedule really helps to keep me accountable to my running plan and allows me to focus on the plan for the week.  This...

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One of the great aspects of my job is I get to work with a lot of different user groups and meet lots of people from the IT Pro community.  Well I did my best to get a list of all the IT professional  user groups I work with in the Heartland territory (Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee...

What can I say this run again was: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious   Thankfully God allowed me to make the trip around the parks safely while I was still smiling and profiling.  He also kept my friend Jimmy safe from hurting himself more, read about Jim’s recap here (some very sobering and...

WHOOOO HOOOOO here we go!  This is it!  Race Week! While I certainly do not expect to win, I do expect to have two fun  trips around Disney World Resort with my good friend Jim and my new friend Pearl (even though I think Pearl is going to leave me in her dust).  So as I look back...

When you are approaching something as cool as running in Disney World you cannot start but to get excited and I mean REAALLLLYYYYY  EXCITED. I talk to my good friend Jim, and he is in the same boat.  I talked to my online training mate form Canada, Pearl, she is excited.   We are...

Alright so this last week was a GREAT week!  I got my 20 miles in on Sat. and I felt great.  The only bad thing all of it was on the Tread Mill, that is what cold and snowy will do to your training schedule.  It was a good run, and I chatted with several different folks through out my...

Only 4 weeks to go until race week, and the hardest part of this week is over I woke up on Monday!  :-).  Last weeks training was great!  I think I had my favorite day on Sat. when I got to run with my good friend Jimmy (a bare footing guru).  We were able to run the 5k in the morning...

That was the theme of running last week: Are we there yet! If you are a parent you hear this approximately 3.2 seconds after the garage door closes, and that is normally followed up by I have to go Potty.  So why am I using it, I am ready for the runs, and I am ready for Disney to hurry up and get...

Well maybe not so lucky this week for me.  Not only do I have my really last hard running week (this is the week I was dreading)  I have to adjust my schedule to allow my lovely wife a vacation over the weekend.  So on the bright side no running on the weekend.  I do have to mention...

This weeks starts the on and off taper of training, and I only have 6 more weeks.  The weeks of training now will be filled with shorter mileage followed by longer miles, pretty much right up until the marathon.  I have to tell you I getting: EXCITED! I am looking forward to the run, and good...

So last week I talked about getting back to it and I happy to announce this week was fun and I found the training fun and great!  However, it got me thinking about a time when I did not get back into it and I wanted to share the story.  So this is a bit different,.  I do not meant to scare...

While last week could be summed in two words, this week is summed up in on 3 letter acronym: DNF For runners you know what that means, did not finish. However, you may be wondering why that is the summary for my week of training. Simple I got a cold and Laryngitis . Now I could have muscled through and...

This is the halfway point week, at midweek I reach half way through the training.  So on Wednesday it becomes 8 weeks down and by weeks end 8 weeks to go! This last week was an interesting week of training, and I surprised myself a bit.  My 17 miler on Saturday was interesting, I decided to...

Wow what a difference a week makes! I had a really solid week of training and was pleased with the 16 early on Sunday morning.  This was really the first long run I felt like I prepared for not only the morning of, but the the days leading up to the run.  I try to look at each week as a separate...

Last week is summed up in two words: Tough Week. While my running on the road was really good, even ran a 3.8 mile race on Thursday, the weekend runs did not go well at all. Just did not have it, I think I was mostly dehydrated and did not eat right.  I know it was not the distances, so not sure...

This week was a solid week of training, and I feel real good about the runs I had this week.  The 7 miler I did on Wed, was all on a treadmill and I crushed it, I think I was right around 9 minute miles and for me that was rocking.  My 14 miler was well, in a word…different.  I did the...

What a week!   This week marked a great week of training.  If you recall from last week, 13 was my Sunday run.  Before I get into the run a huge thanks to Kevin for showing me the trail and running early in the morning on Sunday, to get my 13 in.  Great Run Kevin and thanks for...

Welcome to another week, and this week was a very good week of running and work outs.  I find myself really enjoying the training, and really enjoying the cooler weather.  I ran on Sunday morning for my 8 miles yesterday, and I think it was low 50’s.  It was a good solid run, and it was...

Wow what a good week, and man it felt good to get that 11 miler our of the road yesterday, and it was tough, I was right at 1:49, so not too bad.  I have figured out a trick, to making long runs more bearable.  Run early, early in the morning.  Why you might ask, 3 reasons: It is Cooler...

Happy Monday 1 week done and 17 to go!  This was a great week of training but I have to admit, it was weird week of training.  The family schedule took this week over and had to adjust my schedule and make some adjustments.  So my cross training on Monday was not done in the gym. ...

Well since I have already paid my money for the run, my brother-in-law is coming, and my wonderful wife has booked a family vacation around the Walt Disney World Marathon weekend , I think it time I start training for the run.  It is 18 weeks away, and it is time to get started (officially starts...

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