Posts under ‘Running through the seasons’

My first memory is sensory.  Up until the age of three, my family lived in the Pacific Northwest on Whidbey Island, in the middle of the Puget Sound.  I didn’t know that, back then. I remember standing outside in the front yard of my house.  Everything was green; the leaves, grass, pine trees, and bushes.  [...]

I’m two and a half weeks into the California International Marathon (CIM) training plan that the awesome Coach Gwen worked up.  Being a naive marathon-virgin, I announced I was going to try and qualify for Boston my first time out.  After looking at the training plan, I briefly considered bailing on the entire thing, writing [...]

Sometimes you have to mix it up.  A new trail, a new partner, new music (or lack thereof), new time of day, etc. My marathon training plan has me doing easy “recovery runs” on Saturday in preparation for a long run on Sundays.  This is going to mess with my usual Saturday morning trail runs [...]

The 2010 La Sportiva Eldora 11K Trail Race turned into more of a 9-9.3K, rather than the expected 11K, though we still gained about 800’ in elevation throughout the course.  Runners didn’t find out about the change until two minutes before the starting gun went off.  Paul Karlssen, Race Director, expounded on the conditions and [...]

It’s official; I’m registered for the California International Marathon on December 5, 2010.  It’ll be my very first marathon ever!  The farthest I’ve ever run is fifteen miles, and that was over a year ago when I was training for my first Half.  I’ve even set a time goal for my first marathon; 3:40, which [...]