#75: Bloodied & Busted, what NOT to do.

This week was a bust…..plain and simple. It was as if I had said “what could I possibly do to derail my training”…..after all, things (as I fatefully dared to write last week) were going well so why not set myself back a bunch all in one hit right?This was supposed to be lovely week 4 of the up 3, down 1 training method……and who doesn’t like a down week?  You get to take your foot off the accelerator in […]

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#74: The mystery machine stops here….no more foolin’ this guy

There’s no doubt I have a long way to go in my training before this year’s “big” race, IMNYC on 8/11…..110 days to be exact, but, dare I say it, things SEEM to be starting to come together.  St. George last year, the train wreck that it was for me, is delivering exactly what I hoped it might this go around…..PERSPECTIVE.  At some moments, it’s the nagging voice in the back of my mind that says – “respect the distance, […]

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#73 A Compounding Interest: Nurture, Cultivate and Grow

I used to think I was born in the wrong era, that it might have been better if I was born in the time when people had to build their homes by hand, or manually plow fields or some other physical beat-down on a daily basis to sop up my energy…..Admittedly, I love the sense of giving everything I’ve got and then resting fully at the end of a hard day.  It’s more like a “shutting down” than a slow […]

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