We did our last long slow distance training walk before next week’s Air Force Half Marathon. We started at the Columbus Park of Roses, got on the bike trail and headed north. There were no mile markers near our start point and […]

I just realized that I have not reported on any training walks since the Parkersburg Half Marathon. I’ll just skip the everyday stuff and hit the long slow days. We decided that because we are doing three half marathons over 8 weeks, […]

Until this week, I had never watched the TV show Shark Tank. Shark Tank is a reality show where entrepreneurs face a panel of potential investors (sharks) and try to convince them to invest in their company. I had the show on […]

My son not only plays many sports, he likes to watch sports on TV and shows about how to play sports. Because of his interests, I started watching a show called Sport Science that airs on Fox Sports. This show is a […]

Today Deb, Elaine and I were doing a light hill workout before the half marathon Saturday. We got to the top of the hill at Griggs Reservoir when a gentleman hopped out of an NBCi car with a camera man and said […]

I saw a recent blog post about runners’ pet peeves. The ones mentioned mostly dealt with runners following too close to another runner, run/walkers who repeatedly pass the same person then walk and dogs not under control. I can relate — those […]

Kara Goucher won the first Rock N Roll Chicago Half Marathon on August 2! Let me clarify — she didn’t just win the women’s division — she won the entire half marathon beating out the next closest runner by 19 seconds! Her […]

I’m pretty loyal to shoes. Too loyal at times. I had a great pair of shoes a couple of models ago that I absolutely loved! They were light enough to roll my foot, but heavy enough that I could walk a half […]