Why I did it

On Friday, almost on the spur of the moment, I signed up to run the Meteor 10K on Saturday, part of the Martian Invasion of Races in Dearborn. I had originally played with the idea of this race as a tune-up midway through my training for the half-marathon, but those hopes were dashed by my [...]

Treadmill Challenge update

Today I did my final run for the treadmill challenge. I was a little shin-splinty, and I’d taken a week off because of it, but it was today or never. I spent most of my training time on the road, and had a few failed runs in there. I didn’t get as much running in [...]

20 Minute Challenge Reminder

Hey folks-Just a quick reminder that the 7th is coming up quickly. Don’t forget to record your baseline. I know that several of you have talked to me about doing this. Put your baseline in the comments to the original post.

You can follow my progress on Twitter. I compulsively tweet my runs. Join [...]

20 Minute Treadmill Challenge

I was sitting here, thinking what I could blog about, and then I Tweeted about the 20 minute treadmill challenge. I figured, what the heck, I’ll throw the gauntlet down and see who picks it up.

I’ve been participating in the 20 Minute Treadmill Challenge with the Ford Runner’s Club for the last few [...]

Running: A history

I recently crossed an important milestone… According to my Nike+ iPod system, on November 8th, I ran my 500th mile since I started using the system back in November 2006. So 500 recorded miles in 2 years, plus some amount of non-recorded miles. Not too shabby!

Mike made me this logo in celebration of my [...]