Earthmovers and Sandcastles

So yesterday I went out on a long run, looking like I was ready for a LONG run. You see, Eric got me the Ultimate Direction Wink hydration pack for Christmas, and I haven’t used it yet! I feel sort of silly gearing up with more than a hand bottle for [...]

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I’m awful with details. I’m a bad flyer, too, and in my likely state of freak-out as I take off on Saturday, it will be a very good idea to have nothing left up in the air that I could forget. I’m making my list now. Feel free to skip.

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Why is it the little things that drive us so crazy? My running is going fine; my training plan is working really well for me, and I feel pretty good. But now, of all things, my Garmin seems to be dying.
First it was the speaker, which gradually became taciturn. At first, I [...]

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I’ve been eyeing this hat at Copacetic for a month or two, and I finally bit the bullet and got it. It’s specifically designed for running! I’ve actually been pretty lucky so far this summer not to have gotten burned while running, primarily because most of my runs have been pre-dawn or in [...]

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One foam Cheesehead, preferably for $10 or less. The marathon has a special starting corral for folks wearing them, and while I’d like to do that, I don’t intend to wear it for much past the starting line. I have no confidence in being able to hand it off, either, so I don’t [...]

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Ahem. Anybody read this, care to weigh in on it, etc.? Oh, Gabe…
But Eric did get me a few things I needed and am looking forward to using. Heading into warmer weather, I just can’t make my men’s size large shorts go another running season, so we went by a [...]

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I couldn’t stay inside yesterday – too pretty and warm outside, at about 50 degrees and sunny! So instead of hitting the gym, I “unstabled” Stockard for the first ride of the year.
I rode for about an hour and a half, and it was awesome. So pretty, so fresh! [...]

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It’s done! It’s in the can! My first “official” twenty-miler is on the books and completed!
It took me just a minute over three hours to complete, reaffirming what last week’s run told me: I can do this entire marathon in under four hours, God willing! I won’t beat [...]

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Otherwise entitled, “HOLY CRAP, I JUST RAN 19.75 MILES!”
It may not be a full marathon yet, but you marathoners can probably remember the feeling of hitting this point for the first time, so I’ll brag with abandon. The extra 3/4 mile came from miscalculation; I hit 19 miles and was still almost a mile [...]

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Well, my relay might be falling through, after all. Turns out that the relay the guy had in mind was a different race than the one I thought, and although his looks like fun, too, it’s the weekend of the Marine Corps Marathon. No good this year. I tried half-heartedly [...]

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