I love my round numbers and today ended up being doubly round. Over five years ago, I started a streak of running at least one mile every day. At the beginning, my goal was to make it a month. I had read of people who had kept their streaks up for 20-30 years, however I…
NJ Ultra Training Update
My winter training cycle leading up to my first 100-miler of the year is broken into three phases. Phase 1 ended a couple weeks back with Phunt 50K. My mileage in the four weeks heading up to it was 31, 37, 46, and 31 miles with 53 miles the week of the race including the…
2018 Phunt 50K Race Report
While you never know what type of weather you’re gonna get in the middle of January in the Mid-Atlantic, it’s a safe bet that warm will not be part of it. This usually isn’t a big deal for me, yet for some reason I couldn’t figure out what to wear for the race. The complicating…
2018 Phunt 50K Preview
My 2018 “race” season starts Saturday at the Fair Hill Natural Resource Management Area in Elkton, MD. I throw quotes in there because while I will be wearing a bib, I won’t really be racing at Phunt. It’s kinda tough to be in race shape after only a couple weeks of increased training volumes. So…
Cold Streak
I’m working on an historic cold streak right now. The temperature outside has been below 20 degrees for each of my past seven runs and bottomed out at 6 degrees today. My habit of getting out before the sun is even up means I’m running in the coldest part of the day. Since I started…