I suck at running

Posted on December 1, 2014 | 5 min read time

Yes, it’s true. I suck at running. Don’t try to tell me otherwise because I won’t believe you. I’m not fishing for pity or anything. It’s just how I feel right now. It wasn’t always this way. I didn’t always suck at running. I actually used to be quite good. As recently as April, I was running six days and sixty miles a week. I was on target for a 3:30 marathon. [Read More]

2014 Disney Wine and Dine Half Marathon - 2:09:40

Posted on November 12, 2014 | 9 min read time

The Wine and Dine Half Marathon has been a race my wife and I have had our eyes on for a while, but since it falls outside of our normal Disney schedule it’s taken us a few years to finally get around to it.. Typically, we head down in January for Marathon Weekend and do the Goofy Challenge (as we are in two months), but a race centered around food and drinking? [Read More]

New York City Marathon photos

Posted on November 4, 2014 | 1 min read time

Instead of doing a running recap for last week, I’m posting some photos from the New York City Marathon yesterday. We battled the wind on 1st Ave and spent hours cheering. Great times! Desi Linden The lead pack at mile 18 Desi Linden again Kara Goucher [Read More]

Training recap: October 13-26

Posted on October 27, 2014 | 2 min read time

Yeah, so I’m throwing two weeks of running in here since I didn’t post last week. I was hoping to really get back to things last week, but that didn’t quite happen. I woke up sick last Sunday and ended up missing running in the first half the week because of that. And then Thursday and Friday were Hackday at work so I didn’t get to run because of that. My plan for the weekend was to make up as much as possible, but I was still feeling my cold enough on Saturday to cut a planned 12-miler down to just eight miles midway through. [Read More]

Training recap: 9/29-10/5

Posted on October 7, 2014 | 2 min read time

Finally, we moved! Last week was CRAZY trying to get everything done and get ourselves to the new place, but we made it and it’s awesome! I didn’t get to run at all during the week, but I’m not too surprised by that, I sort of expected it. On Saturday, I got up early and knocked out a nice 10-miler in Liberty State Park with the company of the wife and Dori for the first couple of miles. [Read More]

Training recap: 9/22-9/28

Posted on September 29, 2014 | 2 min read time

Yeah, last week didn’t quite go how I had hoped with running. My weekday runs went according to plan, but the weekend was a bit of a disaster. I was supposed to get up early as hell on Saturday to knock out ten miles and then get ready to go to a wedding, but when the alarm went off at 5:30, I decided a three-hour snooze-a-thon would be a better idea. [Read More]

Training recap: 9/15-9/21

Posted on September 22, 2014 | 3 min read time

Okay, so last week didn’t exactly go how I would have liked for it to. It was actually an incredibly busy week and my running really suffered. :-/ My Wednesday run was shorter than planned and felt awful thanks to staying late at work for an Out in Tech panel about how social media is helping LGBT youth. There was beer and pizza, so, naturally, I had some. I spent most of my run feeling indigesty and crampy. [Read More]