Ramblings From The Road

The ramblings of a rambling runner rambling about running and rambling.

Browsing Posts published in October, 2011

Guest post by Ceridwen, a.k.a The Wife The Nike Women’s Marathon This is probably the largest race I’ve ever done.  I’ve run Philly twice, and that is about 20,000 people.  NWM was 22,000, so they’re basically comparable.  This fact will become relevant shortly. Because I do not run marathons as frequently as Keath, we decided […]

Guest post by Ceridwen, a.k.a. the Wife Only a few days left until my second marathon! I’m mostly excited, but every once in awhile I’ll think about it and my heart will start to pound with nervousness rather than anticipation, but I’m sure I’m ready. My training has been going well and some of the […]

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! — Robert Burns, 17851  The Layton Marathon This race was excellent from start to finish.  Slightly less awesome pre-start, but nothing […]

Honestly; I had no clue until I found out about this race last year.  I was hoping to run the inaugural race, but wasn’t in the area1, but this year when my wife and I decided that we definitely wanted to be out of Washington before September, I shifted my fall marathon search east and […]

Dig in to any subculture enough, and you’ll find the fanatics.  They come in different flavors – the statistics fanatics, the novelty fanatics, the linguistic fanatics, whatever.  You find them in academic circles, sci-fi and fantasy fan groups that border on cults, actual real life cults, music fans of every genre, professional sports fans, and […]

… and June, July, and August, too. So I slacked a bit on keeping track of goals through the summer.  The first weekend of October seemed like as good a time as any to get back on the goal-seeking pony, so let’s see what’s up with my 2011 goals, eh? Mileage – The first five […]