Jenn and I ran the ING Georgia Half Marathon today in lovely, cold, wet, windy Atlanta. Despite the weather and the hilly course, we both broke our personal records at the Half distance. I had wondered if I was going to be able to because my first half marathon was in Tulsa and was an …
Category Archives: Running
Atlanta Track Club Resolution 10k
Warning: Self-congratulatory post ahead. The Atlanta Track Club has a number of races as a part of their Grand Prix, which all ATC members can go to, for free (it’s part of the membership fees). One of them is on January 1st, at 12:00 noon, and it’s called the Resolution 5/10k. You pick your race …
Tulsa Half Marathon
As the most recent post apprises you, I and my wife ran in the Tulsa Route 66 Half Marathon on Sunday, November 18. The decision to do this race was mine, and she nicely tagged along with me. I had figured that it would be a good opportunity to do a half, and I didn’t …
A Post, in Which I Praise Myself
I ran the Tulsa Route 66 Half Marathon today. This was my first every half-marathon. Go me! This was cool on several levels, including that I’ve never run this far before in my life. But it was also cool because I went in thinking, “Oh…2:24, 2:15, something like that for the time.” Instead, I turned …
Motivation
Recently I alluded to my flittering attention span when it comes to hobbies. I’ll pick something up and be, like, totally into it for a while and then it fades to a second tier status. I’ve made inroads in the past few years to cut back on this tendency, attempting to set aside those things …
Butt Blasting your Ears
I run. You probably know this. I usually run with my Ipod nano, listening to music. Some people listen to podcasts, but I’ve never really gotten in to doing that while running. Unless I’m on a long run, during which I carry a waist belt with a water bottle, I stick the nano in a …
Running Milestone
Exceptionally personal post. Do not pass go. Especially if you don’t want to hear me crowing about myself. Yay me! Jenn and I are running in the Tulsa Marathon before Turkey Day. We’re only running the half marathon, but the last time I was training up to long distances, I hit the 10 mile mark …
Walking with Frodo et al.
Jim, of Physics is Phun, pointed me in the direction of a site that allows you to track your mileage along the route of the Fellowship of the Ring, from Hobbinton to Rivendell and onward. Side trips are included such as the ride of Gandalf and Pippin from Isengard to Minas Tirith. Everything a Tolkien …
Google Maps Hack for Route Mapping
Thanks to Tom, I’ve been alerted to gmap-pedometer.com. It lets you manually enter routes (say) for running and calculates your mileage to a degree that is way more accurate than you need. It gets you down to the 1/5th of a foot, which is a bit silly, in my opinion. Here is an example, if …
It Hailed on Me!
Totally unfair… It’s April. I’m in Laurel, MD. I leave the hotel to go running and BAM, it starts thundering and hailing, plus lots of rain. Here’s the nice view from my window at the Outback attached to the hotel. Notice the nice after-rain sheen. It doesn’t quite catch the chilling 15 degree drop in …