While I wasn't terribly excited about my performance, I was happy to have done the Mad City Marathon. The organizers were helpful and sincere and the small crowds were all quite enthusiastic. Through the whole race I only had 2…
Finishing the Madison marathon means some time off. Unfortunately, it is not exactly easy to go from running and juggling 40 miles a week to 10. But it does give me a little extra time to post things on my…
Final time - 3:57:00 A bit of a disappointing time, considering that I was attempting to run a 3:10 or faster. I was done in by the 3 H's...Heat, Hills, and Hubris. Heat: At the start of the race the…
Just before I leave I wanted to get in my last post. I added up the numbers to see how well I did versus my training schedule. I was following a 17 week schedule that required me to run about…
Joggling Hazards. The picture is what happened to me when I tripped while running in Vegas. I was 5 miles into a 10 mile run. It was hot. I was bleeding. But I ran back and kept joggling. If I…
Before every marathon I like to weigh myself. It is just a truism of running, the lighter you are, the faster you can go. If you want to get fast, you have to lose weight. Yesterday, I weighed in at…
In the last few marathons the training schedule I've followed required that on the Wednesday before a Sunday marathon, you do a 10 mile juggling run. Granted, it's a slow 10 miles but it's still 10 miles. This new training…
Today, my wife and I went running together. Well, she was running, I was joggling. We did 2 miles together, then I ran another 4 while she went home to cook dinner. We make quite a pair going along the…
This morning I joggled a quick 4 miles around my neighborhood. The weather was perfect for running, sunny and cool (50 F). I nearly had a drop when a pigeon flew into the juggling pattern but I made a nice…
I learned how to juggle while in 5th grade. A couple of hippies came into our school and taught everyone how to juggle with scarves and beanbags. After learning the basic pattern I was hooked. I got pretty good at…