I’ve been talking to my wife for what feels like months about starting this blog.So here goes.
I’m here to talk about running.
For about six years I’ve been what I consider a serious runner. I started out as a cyclist. In fact, most of my life I identified as a bike-enthusiast (I couldn’t really call myself a cyclist until I consistently rode a bike for fun and endurance).
In 2001, I rode my mountain bike across most of the state of Alaska in a charity ride. Just about 600 miles in six days. Did that make me an endurance athlete? I thought so at the time. But man was I wrong.
I didn’t realize what an endurance athlete I would become until I got my ass sober. I’d get into that but that’s not what this blog is about.
Long story short, after a few years as a serious cyclist, the woman I was dating wasn’t thrilled that I would disappear for up to 10 hours at a pop on a Saturday or Sunday. She was a runner and encouraged me to try it. I was a bit of a gym rat at the time and had already done a few treadmill runs but the thought of running outside scared the hell out of me.
How would I keep my pace? What if I bonked far from home? What f I got lost? What if I got mugged? What if I looked like an ass in front of all the runners in New York City (like anyone would be paying attention to me).
Eight official marathons, a crazy amount of 13.1’s, 65 New York Road Runner races and more than 6,000 training miles later, I feel like I can call myself a runner.
Sometimes I’m better at it than other times. Sometimes I pay too much attention to the technology. Sometime I can’t talk about anything else. Sometimes running sucks. Sometimes it feels like the best thing that ever happened to me. And sometimes it feels like the worst. But at the end of the day, this is what I do to stay sane.
In this space I’m going to talk about everything running. From technology to music to nutrition and training; from how up get up at 5AM or how to motivate yourself after sleeping five hours and working a fully stressed out day at the office; from dealing with the dreaded treadmill run to that beautiful, crispy fall morning run with a million colors on the trees; from 20 mile runs in 90 degree humidity to four mile races in single digit temps; from finding your perfect pace to finding the perfect shoe to finding just the right group of people to run with every week – nothing will be off limits. Oh, and I’ll review all the races and marathons I do (and some I’ve already done).
I’ll post lots of pretty pictures, some videos and some graphics so you’re not just reading a post.
Hope you’ll stick around!
Thanks
