Since the marathon, the layers have pain have been peeled back day by day and it was time to run again last week. It was 5 days post-marathon where I was able to run a measly mile again. Usually I just ease back into it and do a reverse taper: 1 mile, 2 miles, 3 miles, 4 miles, 5 miles, etc. By the time I get to 5 miles, I'm usually good to go again. But let's face it, the marathon does A LOT of damage and it will take 3-4 weeks to fully recover, so I always take these m

Here's what goes through the mind of a marathoner... Hartford Marathon - October 14, 2017 As I headed towards the start line around 7:35 after a final pee break, I found the seeded start corrals. I thought I was in “Corral B” (which was for marathoners finishing in under 4 hours), but I was actually in Corral C and the guys were telling me to move up even further! I was psyched that I was so far ahead of everyone else because in San Francisco there were so many runners and

Taper time is one of the most maddening but yet most necessary evils in training for a marathon or endurance event. Here I am a little more than a week and a half a way from my 13th marathon and I have already encountered some neat things as I wrapped up my peak training weeks. As I mentioned before, I have been focusing on true strength training for this marathon training cycle (since August 6th) and I have been able to increase the weights in some way just about every tim