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Georgia Jewel 50: My Big Fat DNF!
While running my first 24 hour race last year, the Midsummer Nights Dream Ultra, I pushed my distance limitations from 37 miles to 55 miles. After 21 hours of running 1 mile loops I had to quit with a total of 55 miles, for which I pushed myself and my limits. At the end of […]
Chattanooga Rat Race-2.4 Mile
In my quick 5 minute summation detailing my recent blogging sabbatical (detailed here and here) I mentioned the effects a lower back injury has had on my running goals for the year, pushing almost all hopes of distance races out of the picture for the first half of this year. I have discovered in the […]
And Then I Dissapeared…
When I began this blog back in 2012 my goal was simply to provide me a means to keep my self accountable. At the start of the year I weighed close to 365 and had numerous health issues of notable concern. As I trained for my first 5k and eventually triathlons this blog transformed into a […]
Double Top/Double Tap 100 50k Recap
So far this year I have run a marathon (details here), the Bear Blaster 50k+ and a 12 hour race for 37 miles, seven days apart (details here and here), My most recent race exploit proved to be the most difficult and challenging 50k race I have ever ran, the Double Top/ Double Tap 100 ultramarathon. […]
When the Scale Lies
For most of my adult life I have been majorly over weight. At my worst I weighed well over 365 pounds and I smoked a pack to two packs of cigarettes a day. I tried several times to lose weight, going through one diet after another and another, til I eventually gave up and went […]
And Then I Took A Week Off…. Numbers For the Year
At the end of March I had raced two ultra distance races (an ultramarathon or ultra for short is any race going beyond the 26.2 mile distance of a marathon) only seven days apart. The first was an extended 50k totalling 34 miles and the second was an 8 PM to 8 AM timed race […]
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,800 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]
July 4th In the GA/NC Mountains Part 1
This year July 4th weekend fell on a Friday. While all my running friends, and probably every runner in the state of Georgia, were preparing to run the Peachtree Road Race, I saw a three day opportunity to get some back to back running and hiking miles. I figured for the first time in ages […]
Yes You Are A Runner!
Originally posted on Running On Healthy:
A few years ago when I first came back to really running on a regular basis I was reading an article in the New York Times. It was the week before the New York Marathon and the article was about marathon runners and how certain runners regard others. The…
Great Way To End A week and Start Another
Last month was a good month. I managed to hit my highest monthly mileage ever, progressed through my swimming and cycling and got myself into a rhythm that will drive me into the beginning of my triathlon season. The one achievement that eluded me in January though involved my maximum running distance. When I ran […]
Chatter Gets Fit 