Monthly Archives: September 2013
Join the Runner’s World Half Marathon and Festival
A collection of bibs and medals from last year’s event
In just a few short weeks, I’ll be heading to the Runner’s World Festival once again. With so many things going on in my life, and my desire to focus on the Richmond Half, I’ve opted to skip out on the half marathon this year and instead do another crazy aspect of the weekend — the Five and Dime.
The Five and Dime is the 5K and 10K, back-to-back, on the Saturday before the half marathon. I don’t know how to really prepare, or how I’ll approach either race, or if I’ll just do it for pure fun, but I’m certainly looking forward to this opportunity for a unique race experience.
I’d love to have you join in. My #RunChat partner Scott will also be there that weekend.
You can register now with a 15% discount code for either the half marathon or the Hat Trick, which consists of the 5K, 10K and the half.
Enter the follow codes when registering:
10% off Half: runningbecauseRWHalf
10% off Hat Trick: runningbecauseRWHat
Race dates are Oct. 19 and 20.
For more information about the Runner’s World Half Marathon and Festival, visit their website.
No plan is the working plan, for now
As I look ahead to running the Blue Ridge Marathon next year, I’m already thinking about what I want to do for training. Plan or no plan or the in between.
Generally speaking, I do best when my exact mileage isn’t on paper or an Excel file. When I have a mileage range for each run or week, I don’t have any major problems. When I do have exact plans, I do OK for 2 weeks, then I get overwhelmed when I look at it and then change all my plans.
That, however, doesn’t mean I’m not open-minded about trying it again.
That, then, leads me to what I want to do the rest of 2013. This week is a perfect example of how not planning things has worked out to my advantage. While each day I’ve been anticipating possibly being thrown off for a long time with my second son, I got in 4 good runs, 3 short bike rides, and a solid amount of push-ups and sit-ups for my monthly goal.
If I can do that in a week filled with a lot of life’s stresses, then surely I can build a solid base through the rest of the year, run a decent Richmond Half Marathon and Surf ‘n’ Santa 10 Miler, and be ready for winter training for Blue Ridge.
Whether that’s on paper or an app or my own file or nothing at all is something I’ll do a lot of thinking about in the next few months. …
New life … not yet
I flipped the calendar to September the other day and was suddenly thrust into fast forward as my wife and I thought our baby was on his way. Without too many details, the baby IS on the way … he’s just taking his sweet time getting here without us needing to be in the hospital.
With all that happening and juggling things at work, my focus on goals for September stopped at 2,000 sit-ups AND 1,000 push-ups. That in itself will be tough, but with the help of a few friends I’ll stay focused enough to get close. Something will be better than nothing is pretty much my mind frame right now.
That something has actually started off pretty well in these first few days … I simply don’t want to get to the end of the month feeling exhausted and like I did nothing.
I also kicked off the week with a 7+ mile run with my friend Josh, who is in the process of moving to Richmond. I was able to knock off 20 minutes on my bike on Tuesday and a short 3-mile run this morning. It’s all about doing something with running and biking too.
By the time you hear from me again, my family should be a little larger …
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