Adventures in Cross Training

So far everything I’ve read suggests that cross training is a crucial part of running.  Apparently, if you run too often you’ll get injured (ouch!).  And if you run too little, you’ll get injured (double ouch!).  So it’s important to run just enough and find something else to do in between.  Weight training they say [...]

Hazardous PRs

We have our link for submitting your PRs — Personal Records — over on the left, or its own tab up top. Thinking about PRs is often a good idea. The thing is, it can also be a hazard.
The good part, which is very large, about PRs, is that it puts your attention [...]

Running from the Ankles Up!

Someone once told me that fitness begins from the ankles up.  Whether or not there is any scientific proof surrounding this, is anybody’s guess.  Although my ankles look pretty much the same, I have noticed a change in my knees.  Yes, my knees.  You’d have to know the story of my knees to know why [...]

Running to work and maybe to Baltimore?

Today I ran to work– about 7 miles from home to office.  This is my third time run-commuting.  I had so much more energy at work today than I normally do.  I plan to run-commute to work every Tuesday, at least for the summer. Each week, I’ll vary the route at least a little to [...]

Shoes slipping?

The trick may be in the laces. I have narrow heels but big feet, so I buy men’s shoes (comes with the 6-foot-tall territory, I’m afraid). Obviously because of that, my narrow heels can occasionally cause fit problems. Then a shoe guy at Gotta Run in Annapolis showed me how to loop my laces around [...]

RRCA Footnotes May 2009

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Riverfront Revolution 10k: “A runable race”

by Monica Lewis
The inspiration for the title of this entry comes from the ominous signs that welcome visitors and residents alike to our humble home county, and which my husband and I routinely mock each time we see them: “Welcome to Prince George’s County.”  And beneath: “A liveable community.”  What does that mean?  Our cynical [...]

Something to Smile About…

If you had asked me last week how things were going with my running, I probably wouldn’t have had many good things to say.  The last time I’d been out running was the previous Saturday, due in part to the never ending rain and work commitments.  When I finally did make it out, it was [...]

Ruuuuunning in the rain

I just wanted to congratulate all the Running Starters who made it out to the track Tuesday evening. Not everyone got the message that the run had been canceled because of rain, so the folks who showed up ran anyway! (Go team!) It drizzled lightly on us at the start and then by the third [...]

We did it! (and then some)

Yesterday, Dave F. and I both completed our first ultradistance race, the Skyline Challenge 50K (~31 miles).  In fact we actually ran 33 miles since we got a little bit lost on the trail section of the course.  Amazingly, I feel less sore today than I usually do after marathons (for example, I can walk up and down stores without gripping the [...]