I started into a marathon training program a couple months ago after I wrapped up The Bear for the year and had a little rest time. A few weeks into the marathon program, I started charting out my race calendar for the upcoming several months and realized I needed to make some adjustments. I knew that I definitely wanted to run the Thanksgiving half marathon in Atlanta and I had started planning to do my first full marathon with the Rock 'n' Roll series in Raleigh since I ha

When I started getting my weekly running miles up and hitting 8-12 milers with more regularity, I started to notice different ways that my body was responding to the stress. You expect to get fatigue in your legs, sure, and that has certainly happened, but I've found it has been happening less often as I get more adapted to my training regimens. I've read about how weight training for your whole body is beneficial to running so that's something I knew intellectially, but I d