Milo and the Calf

Category: Running

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    The BQ(Q) – Bob D

    Name:  Bob (Subdood on Running Ahead) Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 47 Height: 5’9″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 149 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? What was your finishing time? Tell us a little about the race. A little over 2 months ago at the Twin Cities Marathon, Oct. 7,…

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    A Plan for the Holidays

    Eighty hour works weeks, buying a condo, traveling for the holidays. Excuses, excuses, excuses.  E-fucking-nough.  I’ve got to get a regular running and studying routine going, and its got to happen now.  To help that along I’m taking a page from Runners World and doing a little holiday streak challenge.  I’m committing to running and…

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    The BQ(Q) – Don S

    As I have posted more and more of these BQ(Q)s it is becoming clear that the answer people give to the final question is usually the best.  Don’s answer is first rate.  Thanks again for taking the time to fill this out, Don! Name: Don S  Sex:Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 35…

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    The BQ(Q) – Kevin B

    Name : Kevin B (Gville Kevin on RA) Sex: M Age (at the time of first BQ): 36 D.    Height: 6’1’’ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 160 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? What was your finishing time? Tell us a little about the race. 3:06:41 at 2012 Baystate Marathon in…

  • The End of the Barefoot Running Craze?

    If who I see running loops in parks, and number of threads on running message boards, are any indication, barefoot running seems to have finally moved from all consuming fad to persistent running subgenre.  Good.  I’m happy to have barefoot running at the fringes where I can celebrate the eccentrics who do it well without…

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    Training Totals – 10/15-10/21

    Numbers   Total Hours of Exercise: ~6.5 Running : 30 miles in 5:07:57 Cycling: 4 miles in 22:19 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): 00:10:00 Climbing ~1:0:00 Other 0:00 Hebrew Study Time: 0:35:00 Comments: Good week for running, mediocre week for everything else.  Work is just too fucking busy to get everything…

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    Phil Coppess – hero to working stiff runners

    Its marathon season, which means the New York Times is once again including some running coverage in its sports section.  Today, there was a great little article about Phil Coppess who has held the Twin Cities Marathon course record for over twenty years with a time of 2:10:05.  The article is good read for all…

  • “Runners Run”

    It was just another eight mile run.  Two loops in the park;  something I’ve done a hundred times before.  The pace, 9:20s, was nothing to write home about, but the weather was gorgeous, and after months and months of battling injuries, and fighting to slowly get my fitness back without re-injuring myself, something clicked tonight.…

  • 2000 miles in Prospect Park

    As I ease back into regular running, I’ve been trying to not obsess over the numbers.  Sure I record the time and distance of my runs, but I haven’t really been digging into the numbers like I do when I am running seriously.  So, today, when I was bored and checking my stats on runningahead…

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    The BQ(Q)

    The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire (or BQ(Q) for short) is a project I started on my old blog, justthedistance, where I interview people who have qualified for the Boston Marathon.  Once I got injured last fall, the project slowed down.  I couldn’t even think about Boston when I couldn’t run.  Now that I’m healthy and running again, I’d…