When the wind hit me, it wasn’t just that it slowed me down. It wasn’t just that it blew sand…
It’s that time of year when we sign up for gym memberships, restart our meditation practice, and generally resolve to be…
I ran my 8th marathon this morning. I think I’m still in shock and occasionally have to…
I run my age on my birthday. This has been happening ever since I graduated, and while I haven’t raced…
I ran the San Francisco marathon today with a swiss-army knife of cramp-prevention mechanisms. I took salt pills, high sodium gus, extra electrolyte drink, and pickle juice. All of them failed, as did I.
Before a race, every runner has goals. For my first marathon, the goal was to finish. Later, the goals were specific paces, then a Boston qualifying time. Whatever your goal is, it’s important to write it down.
We’re now just 10 days out from the San Francisco Marathon! If you’re running the full, heads up that the course has become quite a bit more challenging this year. Because of security concerns, runners must use the sidewalks on the bridge. We’ll be taking the northbound sidewalk to…
Last year, my friend Max introduced me to audiobooks. They’ve become the third big transformation in my running career (more on the first two in a later post).
I love reading, but could only muster enough time to read 6–8 books per year. You…
In my last post, I described the hardest workouts of my marathon training cycle: 14, 16, and 18 mile tempos at marathon pace, placed within 20–22 mile long runs.
I’ve just emailed the race coordinators to transfer from the San Francisco Half Marathon to the full. As I realized in an earlier post, triggering muscle cramps during training is very tricky, and leaves me at high risk of injury.