Run Commuting

Maintaining high weekly mileage is hard in the same way that the middle miles of a marathon is hard. It doesn’t require a lot of effort or pain — just focus.

I float between 50 and 70 miles per week. While this is nothing compared to the pros looking 120 mile weeks, it can be…

Conquering a Pace

Running is a simple sport. A race is measured by one criteria: Time. It does not matter what you wear to a race, the thoughts that pass through your mind when running, or how your running form looks. These things may be inputs to your performance, but ultimately what matters is how fast you run.

The biggest obstacle: Muscle Cramps

Race time predictors extrapolate from previous races to predict future times. Plugging in my half marathon time, the resulting race predictions are accurate — the mile time is exactly my personal best, in fact. The predicted marathon time is 2:39:30, or a pace of…

Racing Hills at the Tahoe Relays

Yesterday, I competed in the oldest relay race in the country, the Tahoe Relays. In it, 7 runners race “legs” of 9–14 miles that circumvent Lake Tahoe, which lies at about 6,000 feet. I ran it with my track club, West Valley.

Alright, turns out 26.2 miles is a lot.

One of the funny things about recording my progress in real time is that my failures and ignorance are apparent for all the world to see. I can’t reweave the story into a logical narrative, complete with a step-by-step plan that led me to a 2:37 marathon. No…