Posts under ‘Los Angeles Marathon’

And I’m not running it after all. My knee was experiencing some unexplainable pain over the last few weeks and though I tried working through it on elliptical and bikes, I still found myself wincing at times. I’m too young to screw up my knee. It’s not worth it. I never had pain before all [...]

Weren’t those the great words of Forest Gump? Okay, yeah, pysche… Forest may have been slow, but he was actually running unlike myself these last few days and I’m still bummed. I just iced my knee after doing 60 minutes on the eliptical machine. It feels much better than before when there was obvious pain [...]

Some of you may be wondering what happened to my running posts and if I’ve fallen from my training schedule? I was actually going strong and just a couple days before New Years my knee started feeling pain. Perhaps it is overexertion, but whatever it is it ain’t going away. (Tears, lots of tears fall [...]

Few days ago I took a two hour ride down from Marietta to Columbus to return the first Nike+iPod sport kit I purchased for a new one. If you recall the first one wasn’t reading my pace correctly. It completely insulted me by saying I was running 25 minute and 31 minute miles. No way [...]

After all that Chaka Khan, standing in an Office Depot for seven hours, talking about laser jets, Colorsphere, ink jets, driving two hours from Parkersburg, WV to Morgantown, WV, arriving at the Marriott the GPS could not find and being exhausted with a capital ‘E’ it was time to work out. This is the first [...]

Something unnatural must be happening to me, because my long runs have been feeling better and better these days. Perhaps it is as simple as my change in attitude – looking forward to the run instead of dreading it hours on end before it actually arrives. Amazing stuff isn’t it? This morning I even decided [...]

Last night when Michelle and I pulled into Gettysburg, PA we were bummed that we wouldn’t have more than a few hours to actually check the city out. It was already 8 o’clock at night and I was way too beat to do any night exploring, but I urged Michelle to go check it out [...]

Something went wrong on my long run today. Everything felt good and right including my iPod + Nike sport kit until mile 4. Suddenly the darn thing stopped tracking my pace correctly. I know getting back out there for the first time isn’t going to produce times to impress anyone with, but I knew there [...]

Um, yeah… I’ve run with music before in the past and it was okay. There were times when I could really feel it pushing me and others when I used it for a cool down session. On the fourth day into training after purchasing the iPod Nano and downloading some new tunes to upload the [...]

Day three started horribly. I had a monster headache and seriously thought about running in the evening. Something told me just to get out there and get some fresh air. I wouldn’t doubt that being in this hotel room wasn’t part of the problem. As I put my gear on I was singing a completely [...]