Running recap: 8/4-8/10

Posted on August 11, 2014 | 2 min read time

She gets herself into the worst jams Last week was a bit sparse on the running, unfortunately. Most of my week was spent driving back and forth to Jersey City to look at apartments. I just couldn’t squeeze running in as much as I would have liked. I ended up with just three runs for 14.5 miles total. The eight-miler I wanted to do over the weekend got cut early because of time and just being exhausted from constantly running around. [Read More]

Running recap: 7/28-8/3

Posted on August 4, 2014 | 1 min read time

I’m going to make this a short and quick post since there isn’t a ton to share and I’ve got another one coming this morning. Last week was a good week of running. I stepped it back to just the fundamentals, a few short runs at an easy pace with no expectations. I knocked out four four-milers and a six-miler. It’s not a lot of miles, but every run was a complete success. [Read More]

Downtown Westfield 5k and Pizza Extravaganza - 26:20

Posted on July 29, 2014 | 4 min read time

Mmmmm pizza! Okay, I think six days is enough time to have recovered from the mental beating I took thanks to this race and I can throw together a quick recap. This was just not a good race for me. As I keep writing about recently, I’m in a pretty rough rut with running right now and I knew that going into the race so I didn’t expect a lot. [Read More]

Running recap: 7/21-7/27

Posted on July 28, 2014 | 2 min read time

I don’t want to keep beating a dead horse here, so I’m not going to go into much detail about my week of running. I only put in 17 miles, including a pretty rough 5k, and didn’t run the second half of the week. Part of me just didn’t feel like it and the other part felt like if I didn’t try, I couldn’t disappoint myself. I don’t want to push myself to do something that’s not working and isn’t making me happy. [Read More]

Garmin Forerunner 220 review

Posted on July 22, 2014 | 11 min read time

After a few weeks of running with my new Garmin Forerunner 220, I think I can finally write up a little review for it. As you may recall, this is my first running watch–actually, it’s the first watch of any kind I’ve owned in like thirteen years–and I was a bit on the fence about the purchase. Obviously, I decided to go for it! Hardware [Read More]

Erie Marathon training: week 8

Posted on July 21, 2014 | 3 min read time

Last week, I wrote about how I needed to reevaluate my goals and plans in regards to Erie. I decided I’m likely going to shift my goal race back to Philly in November. In the meantime, I’m still planning on running Erie as a training run, but that could still change as the race gets closer. Making that decision was hard and means having to accept my biggest running goal for 2014 (a BQ for 2015) won’t happen. [Read More]

Erie Marathon training: week 7 - Time to be honest with myself

Posted on July 14, 2014 | 7 min read time

As far as I can remember, I've never had a Big Mac before, but somehow on Saturday night this happened. Last week was not a good week of training. In fact, it was crap. Total crap. The week was scheduled as a step-back week with 42 miles planned. Unfortunately, this was based on running six-days a week for the previous few weeks, which I haven’t done, so it was only one mile less than I ran the previous two weeks (which should have been 48 miles each, but were only 43). [Read More]