tl;dr I have no idea what I’m doing here. My Calendar Club project ended 3 weeks out from my first spring race, which is the perfect timing for a peak week. The good news was that I ended that 7 day period feeling strong and injury free despite running 196 miles. The bad news is…
March 2026 Calendar Club – Month In Review
Last month I completed the Calendar Club which is a running challenge where you run in miles the day of the month. This is a report on how it went. Background and Context Before I get into it, a little background on me. I’ve been running consistently for 13 years now. I crossed 30k lifetime…
March 2026 Calendar Club – Week 4 Update
What an amazing week of running for me. Coming into this project, I guessed that week 4 would be where the accumulated mileage (175 on the week, 410 for the month) would have my legs completely thrashed and I’d be really struggling just to get the miles in each day. In reality? Not so much.…
March 2026 Calendar Club – Week 3 Update
Oh, yeah. I’m deep into things now. I started this week off with my fastest paced effort of the month. It only went downhill from there as the accumulated mileage started to finally catch up with me. My legs have felt pretty decent starting out for each of the runs, however my paces just started…
Caught a (3x) 10K
I hit 30,000 lifetime running miles a couple weeks back. More specifically, 30k from when my current training log started back in 2012. I had done some (undocumented) running before that, however guess it was quite a bit less than 1,000 total so we can ignore those miles for the sake of simplicity. The math…
Running Through A Cyclical Low
Daily running is not a steady state affair. If only. Some days are better than others (stupid rain). Some weeks are better than others (stupid work obligations). And some months. . . This has been one of those months for me. Coming out of Eastern States, I was back to 100% physically within about 10…
I Could If I Wanted To
I mean, that’s the excuse, right? Sure I could do X. Anybody could do X. I just don’t want to. This is something we learn at a young age as a way to push back against our shortcomings. It’s also a nice lie we tell ourselves to boost our self esteem. It’s not that I…
Viaduct Plan B
I was planning to use the Viaduct 100M race last weekend as the primary training stimulus leading into Eastern States, however the race ended up being cancelled due to downed trees on the course. I think I’ve gotten faster at the hundred mile distance this year due to all the hundreds that I’ve been running…
Sigh. Here We Go Again
I was putting the finishing touches on my latest post (“2025 Viaduct 100M Preview”) when the email hit my inbox: Race Cancelled. Apparently, the region got hit with some nasty storms and there’s a bunch of trees down on the course plus most of the area is still without power. This is now the third…
Making It Up As I Go Along
A decade of experience and a massive base of running mileage (28,000+ miles) is an awesome thing. When I started out, I had 20 week training plans. There were build weeks, workouts, long runs, deload weeks, and even some back-to-back long runs thrown in for good measure. As my miles started stacking up, the mental…