SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! FLYING MONKEYS! RUNNERS! HILLS! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! It’s Race Week, and I have been getting anxious… more than I have in the past (except for 2009 Knoxville Marathon). The Race that I am running is the 4th Annual (A New Hope) Flying Monkey Marathon run in the “rolling” hills of Percy Warner [...]

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Don’t worry: Despite the fact that I the title might reference poop to some, this post doesn’t… the next one does. Originally this was going to be one post highlighting my running for August but: 1) I am to longwinded on my descriptions of certain generally gross stuff that I do 2) I keep getting [...]

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Susan from I Run For My Life is running her second Marathon this weekend. The St. Jude’s Marathon in Memphis. What makes this special is that she is had dedicated her race to Elijah, a personal friend of her’s who is going through chemotherapy for a second time. What makes it special is that Elijah [...]

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It’s Race week and I am gearing up for some fabulous prizes in the Guess My Time contest for Autumnfest 8k held on Thanksgiving (US Holiday) this coming up Thursday. I haven’t decided what I am going to offer yet, but I will have the prize and the official rules in an upcoming post. But [...]

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Terry went down to Georgia, he was looking for a PR to set. He was in a bind ‘cos he was way behind: he was willin’ to take a bet. Whether it’s your first, your 10th or your 100th, you will never leave a marathon without learning something. Sometimes it’s about you as a person, [...]

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It has been a busy week of running for me. I was able to run 4 out of the 5 lunch day runs, which usually is just 3, so that was pretty nice. Monday I only had one rest day from my 20 miler and took Monday as an easy run day. However, my 9:07 [...]

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I got this from Marathon Central about Fox Cities Marathon in northeast Wisconsin being closed 2-1/2 hours into the race. Like, they told runners to stop and take shelter due to lightening and bad weather, but not everyone got the message. It makes it worse that some of the runners did not hear the message [...]

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I was IMing with Devaney about his upcoming marathon Honolulu Marathon on December 11th and about a strategy that he could use to approach his training. He has (as of Monday) purchased a second home in Wilmington and plans to move down there this summer with Andy. He already has one house that is in [...]

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Yesterday was a really long day and I did not get to see Eric at all. Poohey. I made it into work at a decent hour yesterday, hopefully I am on schedule again. Seeing that I woke around 5:30 yesterday and today. Although today my eyes were very heavy and I proud that I did [...]

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08/19/04 You may or not have been able to tell from my website that I have been making some minor adjustments here and there. One big adjustment that I am making is the Update list on the bottom of this page will have active links to some of the pages that I have edited for [...]

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