Milo and the Calf

Tag: marathons

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    Marathon Autopsy: The Training

    In 2005, I ran my first and (so far) only marathon, the New York City Marathon. It was a total disaster. I was undertrained and suffered serious gastrointestinal issues on the course. I finished in an extremely disappointing five hours and forty five minutes. Now, as I am deep into the training for my next…

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    Training Totals 3.7.2010

    RECAP: A busy, busy week with work, packing and moving most of what I own to NY. (E is living in NY, and I living in D.C. for the next six months. Since NY will be our permanent home, most of our furniture is now up there with her). I was able to get my…

  • Seventies Running Hero: Katherine Switzer

    The seventies were about short shorts, and running mega mileage, but they were also about the changing nature of the sport of marathoning. No one exemplifies that more than Katherine Switzer.  Katherine Switzer is because was the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon, she did it in 1967, finishing in a time of…

  • 70s Hero: Ron Hill

    Some lessons learned from the runners of the 1970s stick with us today. Perhaps the two  most important are: 1. You need to get in the mileage. 2. Short shorts are most comfortable. Nobody epitomized getting in the miles more than Ron Hill. Hill won the Boston Marathon in 1970 in 2:10:30 and the Commonwealth…