#2011commitments

A re-commitment for 2012

pre-running days

In the past 8 years you’ve done a lot — you lost 40 pounds, you have run dozens of races including three marathons, you even like salads.

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Making the commitment: Checking up

running, Bedford, Va.

A couple of months ago I talked about how this training session for the Baltimore Marathon was going to be different. Now that I’m halfway through training I thought it would be a good time to do a check-up.

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Making the Commitment: #watchless Monday

I think most runners are guilty of being way too addicted to their times/paces and their Garmins/watches/other GPS-related devices. So I, and quite a few others, are here to stop it for at least one day a week.

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Making the Commitment: 2+ minutes of plank

In the rush of things last week, I let core work slip by, except for a few push-ups on the Bosu ball early in the week. Working out — besides a few runs — was the last thing on my mind. In the course of a week, though, I almost lost focus. I really didn’t [...]

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Making the commitment: the “other” things

I knew last summer that I needed to do something else to compliment my running, but I failed miserably at that. Lesson learned. Let’s move on. Last week for the first time in a long time, I looked forward to do some of the other things that have slowly crept into my workouts in the [...]

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Changing my stride

In seven-plus years of running, plus on and off running in high school 15-plus years ago, one thing that’s never really come up is my running form.

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