Maybe you're somehow not aware, but it's miserably, oppressively hot outside. This isn't my steering wheel is a little too warm in the afternoon kind of hot either. It's literally 80 degrees with 75% humidity at 5:30am kind of hot. On Monday, I was making up a 6 miler that I had neglected over the weekend and I figured I would get an early start so I was getting cranked up around 7:30am. That turned out to be one of the most miserable 6 miles of my life. Scarcely more than

I usually ascribe to the belief that the less time I spend clicking around on Facebook, the better off I'll be. How often do you find something on Facebook that actually had a positive impact on your life? (The irony of me posting this on Facebook is not lost on me, don't worry.) In spite of that belief and my reticence to spend time watching multiple Youtube videos at a time, I was introduced to a band called Too Many Zooz through clicking around on Facebook and proceeded

For what is at least the third or fourth time now, I'm digging back into a marathon training program. I've settled on a target race date in the first couple weeks of November and there are races in Raleigh, Charlotte, and the Outer Banks that I'm deciding between, but the training schedule is already in motion. Finishing up The Bear a little over a week ago, I took a few days off from running before starting to crank on a Hal Higdon marathon training program again. Having r

As much as I get on a soapbox about listening to your body, I'm still pretty terrible at it. This post was originally about how I had started running at night since the weather had begun changing and how that was so much better than running in the middle of the day. I was so confident that now I could look back at my running data and my blog posts over the past year to gauge how I should switch up my running with the seasons. Which, sure, running when it's 95 degrees and hum