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So about a year ago I was on the path to running the Seattle Marathon, which I did do, and I was motivated by the scary distance that the marathon is. I then didn’t run for 3 months, so I signed up for the eugene 1/2 marathon and well that turned out alright and again [...]

It’s has been some time sense I last posted basically because it has been some time sense I last ran. So I am sure that everyone is dieing to know what’s new, or not but still come on. Well gather round ill tell you bout my latest happens or at least a few. I have [...]

That’s right, everything is changing. So in the past year I went from not running at all to running a marathon then 2 months off, trained and ran a half marathon. I have been off of the running again for 2 months and yesterday was my 3 come back run. Changes Shoes: Changed shoes from [...]

So I was hoping to start running 2 weeks ago, but well you go and play football with some high school friends and before you know it you know touch football is push, and push is a kind of tackle meets crushing… so have pulled quite a few muscles. Anyways I thought I would share [...]

Well I am gearing up for my first half-marathon, I have no doubt I can go the distance, I am going to focus on changing my body into that of a runner! I love to run and it’s even better when I can just get out and run because I enjoy it, It makes me [...]

So after training hard for the Seattle Marathon and becoming a runner again I have noticed that without a running buddy or with out a solid goal and a real date that’s hard to get motivated. So I did what any person would do I found something real and solid that I can put my [...]

Oh man there is nothing like running hills in Oregon. I did not run much in the forest well training for the Marathon, I was going for distance but for height. But now I just want to get out and put in around six miles a day. Chip Ross Run So for my first real [...]

Wow… I’ll say it again WOW! It was a long ride to get there and now its over and I am in paaaain! Ha, everyone says marathons are one of the hardest things you can do. And I guess after building up to a 19 mile training run, I thought hey this may be do [...]

I went to be very early because all of my running sadly had not been in the morning but mostly in the evening and my long Saturdays had almost always been delayed for some reason or another so I wanted to make sure I was up and in gear. What my pre morning marathon looked [...]

The day before the Seattle marathon I found myself relaxing all day. I had read a lot of thing about what to do and not do, but it seems like for me the average guy just trying to finish the marathon there is not much to do. I had done all the hard work the [...]