Training and Planning

September 17, 2011

Training for Marine Corps Marathon is going well, with cooler temperatures helping make the longer runs a lot more enjoyable. When I was considering marathons for this fall, I had looked at the elevation chart for MCM and had in my mind that it wasn’t a particularly hilly race. I starting hearing from people who [...]

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Bear Water Run

September 10, 2011

The consensus is that Hal Higdon is smarter than I am, at least when it comes training for a marathon. After asking anyone who would listen if I could mess around with my marathon training as dictated by Hal, the most common answer was to shut up and run the stupid schedule. Well, they may [...]

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Me and Hal

August 29, 2011

Hal Higdon and I have taken our relationship to the next level. We first met in the fall of 2007 when I bumped into him at the bookstore. I had just signed up for my first marathon and was looking for a book with lots of information and training schedules for beginners. I took him [...]

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13.1 Minneapolis Race Report

August 21, 2011

What do you do when you find a race that has a great course that fits perfectly into fall marathon training? If you are me, you run it two years in a row. This morning I ran 13.1 Minneapolis for the second time, and once again I came away thinking that this is a great [...]

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Tour de Tonka

August 15, 2011

Besides a half iron, completing a century ride was on my list of things to do this summer. The Tour de Tonka (TdT) is a multi-distance bicycle ride, with distances ranging from 17 to 100 miles. Previous years we’ve been out of town the first weekend in August when the ride takes place, so we [...]

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Chisago 70.3 Race Report

July 27, 2011

Seven months ago I picked Chisago for my first half iron triathlon. I had heard great things about the course and the July 23rd date would leave me 14 weeks to concentrate on marathon training after the triathlon was over. Twenty weeks ago I started training with three fantastic women and my live-in training partner [...]

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Want to Run the 13.1 Minneapolis?

July 15, 2011

Wow, almost a month since my last post. I’ll be out there checking in on all of you, so I hope you have been having lots of fun so that I will have a lot to read about. What the heck have I been doing since my Oly triathlon? Running, swimming and biking of course!
On [...]

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Liberty Tri Pictures and Training Update

June 21, 2011

It’s been a while since I’ve had a decent picture from a race, so I was excited to see a few good ones from the Liberty Triathlon. It’s always nice to have one from each leg of the race.

They missed Mike on the swim but here is a good one of him on the bike:

Normally, [...]

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Liberty Olympic Distance Triathlon

June 12, 2011

Saturday was my second Olympic Distance Triathlon Race. The first one was two years ago in Rochester on a hot and incredibly windy day. If you want to torture yourself, you can read about it here. You don’t need to go read about it. All you need to know was that I finished 13th out [...]

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What the Heck Happened?

May 27, 2011

Fargo! A lot of analysis isn’t need to figure out why I’m so excited about it. In case you can’t remember, I ran four minutes faster than my previous PR and I came in under two hours. Yes, I know you didn’t forget but I wanted to say it again anyway. If a race is [...]

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