My wife Ashlie and I have turtles. That fact alone should tell you a little about us. They were the first pets we bought together (although they were and still primarily are Ashlie’s pets). We bought them six or seven years ago, when they were only a few inches in diameter, and relatively cute, as far as reptiles go. They are both female Red Eared Sliders, named Cuff and Link, after the turtles owned by Read more…
I have decided to make a slight alteration to my spring plans. Originally, I wanted to break 16:00 in the 5K this spring, and then enjoy a semi-retirement from logging all sorts of miles and crushing workouts. Ashlie and I planned on ticking a few states off in our quest to run a marathon in each of the 50 states, notably North Carolina with the Tobacco Road Marathon, and Colorado with the Colfax Denver Marathon. Read more…
Taking a cue from Roadkill’s founder Josh, I will not be writing up a recap of 2013. As he mentioned, it’s all on this blog or the Roadkill Racing blog, so if you really had it in you to relive all of the exciting drama, you can just click on “Older Posts” below. If you really wanted to, that is. Instead, I want to post some goals for 2014. Contrary to most competitive runners, my Read more…
For those of you that live in western or upstate New York, you know what the weather has been like lately. Last year we were spoiled by an exceptionally mild winter (except, of course, on the days that a Freezeroo race occurred). This year we seem to be enjoying a more typical winter, as evidenced by the several feet of snow and slush on the roads. The first Freezeroo, the Bill Curran Memorial 5K, took Read more…
Three of us from Roadkill Racing trudged down to Ithaca for the fourth race in the Pete Glavin Upstate New York Cross Country Series on Sunday. I wrote a race report on the Roadkill Racing website if anyone wants to read all about our harrowing adventure. There is one more PGUNYXC race on the 24th, and then Ashlie and I will be running the Buffalo Turkey Trot 8K on Thanksgiving. My PR of 27:32 was Read more…
Some of you may wonder what I’ve been up to since my performance at Grandma’s Marathon. Now that I am not focusing on the marathon distance anymore, I have turned my attention to cross country. My team, Roadkill Racing, fields a team every year in the Pete Glavin Upstate New York Cross Country Series, which consists of several races located throughout central and western New York, with the prize for the winning team being one Read more…
Lately it seems that the list of foods you should or should not eat changes every day. If you follow the headlines from Runner’s World, or Women’s Health, or the NY Times, every new issue has the “Top 10 Super Foods” or “14 Ingredients You Should Never Eat.” It’s hard to keep track of what is “good” for you and what isn’t, especially since this changes depending on who and when you ask. One week, Read more…
As I was running the other day, I found my mind wandering. I found myself thinking about two of my favorite things in life: music and beer. I consider myself a connoisseur of sorts of them both, and tend to prefer the same characteristics in both. In beers, I tend to go for darker, more complex brews, like porters and stouts, and disdain the mass-produced, simpler beers that are so popular in America. At times, Read more…
Prepare yourselves; this is going to be a doozie. On Saturday, June 22nd, Ashlie and I both ran Grandma’s Marathon, a mid-size point-to-point marathon starting in Two Harbors, Minnesota, and ending in downtown Duluth. Both of us had high hopes for it; Ashlie had been training hard and was looking to knock some time off on her way to a Boston Qualifier, and I was using this as one final attempt at a sub-2:40 performance. Read more…
Grandma’s Marathon is two days away. I don’t know how I feel about that. Usually, I am excited for a marathon, and have entered the last few marathons knowing that I could run well. After missing four weeks during my heaviest training period, however, I am not as confident as I would like to be today. Rather than dwell on the negatives, though, I have to think about the positives. If I toe the starting Read more…