Swift Fish Net

My marathon training has gone better than I expected it to. I ended up finishing the Parks Half with a 7:45 per mile average. I was hoping for 7:50, and I think I was around that through 10 miles. I felt good enough in the last 3 miles to pick it up. I finished in [...]

Injuries sure are distracting. While I am still not back to 100%, I am finally doing well enough that I actually believe everything will be OK. I will be able to do the marathon I registered for way back on the second day of March. Quite a few of my grand plans for training and [...]

Last year finished up on a rather promising note as far as running goes. In late August, I ran my second fastest 10 Mile at Annapolis. Then a couple of weeks later I ran my third best half marathon at the Parks Half-Marathon. I got through my thirteenth marathon with my third Marine Corps race [...]

Yesterday’s long run brings me to the halfway point of my current Marine Corps Marathon training with MCRRC XMP. Two twenty milers are now completed, but there are three still to go. The next few weeks should be interesting as I’ve got a couple of races coming up with the Annapolis 10 Mile next weekend, [...]

Yesterday, I ran my twelfth marathon in the same place as my first ( in 1996) with the Marine Corps Marathon. While I didn’t have a particularly good race, it was good to get back to the marathon distance after a three year break from marathoning. I had hoped to run somewhere between 3:30-3:40 but [...]

I frequently run on the Rock Creek trail in Maryland for training. This morning was no exception on yet another warm and humid summer AM. This morning I passed another pedestrian going in the opposite direction when he said, “There’s a deer right there!”

After a December of spending my weekends either internet shopping for the holidays or visiting relatives, things are back to my usual pattern for the first weekend in the New Year. Usual for me (at least in the last six months or so) is working with my computers on various projects and getting in a [...]

I get a new blog and then don’t post anything for almost three weeks! Have I quit already?