Check out Some Myths That may Be Killing Your Running Part 1 Myth Number 4 : You can train for a marathon just as well as running 30 miles a week as 60 miles a week. "It is necessary to understand that, while the object of training is to develop...

“Promise me you'll always remember: You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin to Pooh ~ A.A. Milne As the Boston Marathon quickly approaches there's the annual hullabaloo...

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself" ~ George Bernard Shaw "What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live...

"Champions are everywhere: all you need is to train them properly..." ~ Arthur Lydiard If I had a penny for how many times I've been asked "What's the best marathon training program to use", I'd be a very...

" To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice." ~Confucius These are the stated goals, the professed vision, of the New York Road Runners: "We are driven by a singular vision. We believe that we can change the world...

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson So, I'm a bit behind the Resolution curve in the blogosphere, but I've been away, chewing on things...ruminating...fermenting...And as it turns out, finding some true...

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt I'm woken by a cramp in my right calf that wants to rip my gastrocnemius...

Myth Number 1 : "In order to run fast you must train fast." Myth Number 2 : "You race the distance, you don't train the distance" Myth Number 3 : "Efficient, short term plans will allow you to reach and realize your...

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self." ~ William James Four years ago, Thanksgiving morning, I was just starting to run again after 10 agonizing months of constant pain while dealing...

"I'll never do that again!" ~ Grete Waitz, after winning the first of nine consecutive New York City Marathons After a week and a half of silence - Zero communication - The NYRR updated their facebook page with the following: "We...

Check out the beginning of the story in NYC Marathon 2012: The Prelude There really isn't any middle to this story. It starts and it ends, like two slices of bread with nothing in between them. Here's the only middle I have to offer - There...

In my mind's eye I never actually saw myself running the New York City Marathon. Marathon Training Plans. I never pictured myself running across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, through Brooklyn, over the Queensboro Bridge, up First Avenue...into Central...

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. ~ Henry Ford I shouldn't be sitting here typing right now. I should be packing, getting work done before I leave - generally getting my ducks...

"Though she be but little, she is fierce!" William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Fierce / fierc·er , fierc·est 1. a : violently hostile or aggressive in temperament b : given to fighting...

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson This may be how we feel at first...and then two days later...??? I believe that there is a dirty little secret kept quiet among marathoners who have done a few and...

"The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed." ~...

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson...

"To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner." ~ George Sheehan I've heard this from so many runners...'I'M NOT A RUNNER' or 'I'M NOT...

"Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start—nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people—more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York...

That's a Question, Not a Statement of Intent. "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success. " ~ Henry David Thoreau On Friday afternoon, May 11th, I flew from Denver to Sioux...

“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.” ~ Dr, Seuss, Yertle the Turtle Yesterday morning while running through a quiet neighborhood along a narrow, twisty road with...

Catch up on the last two episodes here: Boston Marathon 2012: The Vision, The Reality Episode Two: Race Day Begins ...Time to cut to the chase! "If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment...

Catch up on the Boston Marathon: The Vision, The Reality Episode 1 here Let's Get This Show On The Road... After months of training, through the dark and cold and windy winter, some of it tedious, some of it while injured, some of it while...

Episode One: The Prelude Here is the vision I held in my mind's eye, six months ago or 2 weeks ago, when I thought of my upcoming adventure/family vacation in Boston: My husband, daughter and I will fly to Boston, find our reasonably priced, quiet...

"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success" - Thornton Wilder Runners can sometimes get caught up in the numbers of...