Frozen Training

January 9, 2010

Brrrr! I know I live in Minnesota and all, but come on! It has been crazy cold here. Morning temps have been well below zero without even factoring in the wind chill. So far, I’ve been able to avoid the dreaded treadmill. When it’s below zero, I’ve headed to the local recreation dome. On Thursday, [...]

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Dashing into 2010

January 2, 2010

It’s the New Year and I had a race on January 1st, so it looks that I have three jobs to do in today’s post: assess last year, set goals for this year, and recap the race. I thought blogs were supposed to be fun and that sounds like a lot of work. Let me [...]

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Goofy Memories

December 27, 2009

A couple of blogger friends, Brian Flash and Marlene, are getting ready to run the Goofy in a couple weeks. This consists of running the Disney Half Marathon on Saturday and the Disney Marathon on Sunday. I started this blog just two weeks after Disney 2009, so I haven’t forced my Disney story on you [...]

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XC Ski Lesson

December 18, 2009

In the fall of 2007, my son joined his school’s cross country ski team. It looked like a lot of fun and the team was always in need of parents who could ski to help out at practices. Over the holiday break, the team went away to a cross country ski “resort” where they basically [...]

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Vegas Race Report: Part 2

December 13, 2009

Things have been a little crazy this week, so I’m just now getting a chance write about the Vegas Half Marathon. Don’t mistake my delay as a lack of enthusiasm about the race. If you have heard anything about the Vegas Marathon from years past, it might not apply any longer. This was only the [...]

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Vegas Race Report: Part 1

December 7, 2009

Okay, folks, this weekend report is long enough that I need to divide it up into two posts. For those of you with a short attention span or that just can’t stand the suspense, here is the Reader’s Digest version: I ran a Santa Race on Saturday and I beat my time goal on Sunday. [...]

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I’m Going to Vegas, Baby!

December 1, 2009

The Las Vegas Marathon and Half Marathon are this weekend and I’m getting pretty excited. Mike will be running the full and I’ll be doing the half. I’ve been checking the weather forecast each day and this is what it says right now: low of 38 degrees, high of 59 degrees, and 4mph winds. [...]

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Thanksgiving Thank You

November 26, 2009

Apparently, all of you have not been paying attention to the strategy here at Running My Own Race. See, while all of you set goals for yourselves that you stretch and push to achieve, over here, I promote the low bar strategy. Training hard is a must, but when it comes to goals, I generally [...]

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Turkey Trot Preview

November 20, 2009

Before I head to Las Vegas for the half marathon, I have one other little race to take care of. When we used to live close to family, I would cook Thanksgiving dinner on occasion. Although I am not much of a cook, I can actually put together a nice holiday meal by relying on [...]

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Ironman Florida: Guest Blog

November 14, 2009

Most of you know me simply as The Bike Sherpa, but actually my name is Mike. I’m Beth’s husband and this week I’m honored to be the first ‘guest’ blogger at Running My Own Race. Last week I finished my first Ironman triathlon in Panama City Beach, FL.; a course which is generally considered to [...]

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