Posts Tagged ‘pace’

Pre-race Jitters

It’s 4:39 AM MST, which means it’s an hour earlier here in Las Vegas.  The inaugural Rock n Roll Las Vegas Marathon starts in less than three hours.  The alarm is set for 4:30. Obviously I’m not sleeping.  No point in laying there staring at the lights from the casinos coming through the cracks in [...]

Northwestern Mood

Saturday’s run has been relegated to memory; it’s Thursday now and I’m just sitting down to write.  The things that struck me most about the run on Saturday were interesting for the first few days.  Now that more time has passed I realize that I received something totally different.   I was dreading Saturday’s run.  [...]

No Rose-Colored Glasses for Me, Thanks

My secret’s out: as a writer, I reflect. I’ve done this since I was a pup, probably the gangly, slobbery, falling-over-my-own-feet stage. I think about things that, after a week, most people would have forgotten about. I dwell on kernels of ideas that strike chords in my little brain. I twist and turn it around [...]

Sprinting; the Tale of a Track Work-Out

Saturday morning dawned brightly.  It was decided that due to the two brief snowstorms and the questionable conditions of the trails, we would do a track workout. Clare and Cherry came up with a brief outline for the track, and emailed it to everyone prior to the morning run so we would be prepared.