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This is Very Bad Idea. (Aren’t those usually the best ideas) It’s April 24th at 9:31PM. We’re now a little over a month into the quarantine in my home town of Philadelphia. In early April 4th 20 day’s prior, which feels like 3 days ago, and 3 years ago all at the same time, I […]
Can you? Yes. Should you? Maybe not. This question typically exists for a group of people training for their first Ironman® triathlon race who have also never completed a marathon before. There’s a prevailing wisdom that you should have accomplished at least a stand-alone marathon before attempting an Ironman®. If that stand-alone marathon happens before […]
Well, I tried. I tried to qualify for Boston by running a sub-3 hour marathon during the Baltimore Running Festival, and I gave myself 13 weeks to do it. All things considered, those are not favorable circumstances to try to qualify. Especially when you consider the elevation, relative new-ness to the world of marathon running, […]
Well, the hardest part is over. 8 straight weeks of 2 mile increases on the long runs peaked this past Sunday with a 20 miler (that I’m happy to say went WAY better than the 14 mile disaster from my 8 week post). I’ve now completed runs of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, […]
Welp, I’m back at it again. Had planned to write an update every 2 weeks but with the due date of my wife and my first child fast approaching, well… I skipped a week. Sue me (please don’t). None the less(!) the quest to run a sub 3 hour marathon continues. In the last 3 […]
After having successfully completed training for an Ironman almost a year ago (good god, it’s been that long??), the first 2 weeks of training to run a sub 3 hour marathon at the Baltimore running festival has been a breeze. That also, shouldn’t be surprising considering in 2 weeks, I have run a grand total […]
About a year and a half ago, I posed the question whether or not it was possible to train for an Ironman in 1 year (spoiler alert, it is). Now, I’ve found a new challenge to look forward to, the possibility of running a sub 3 hour marathon at the Baltimore Running Festival in October, […]