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Marathon Fever and Kosmo Kramer
I weaved through fancy running machines at the Margaret Maddox YMCA with my eye out for flowing silver hair. It was the coldest night of the season and Jim said he wanted to run 8 miles on the...
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If Running Clubs Were Gangs
Before East Nasty floods the streets on Wednesday runs, Mark Miller stands before us offering sage advice, group events, and a list of great things the running club is doing for local schools and...
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Bad Start to 2013 Training
Let me tell you, I am not quite in sync with the official Ironman training. The schedule is laid out like a ripe bag of apples waiting for a sinful chomp, but this holy roller isn’t hungry! Yet . . ....
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How A Blonde Humbled Me in the Pool
Four of the five Fab Five members showed up at 7:00 to ride the spin bike for an hour before spin class. I was the only one missing. The training schedule called for a two hour bike followed by an...
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Introducing the Ironman Fear Meter
I think we hit the 70′s in Nashville over the weekend, but that came to a crashing halt this morning. Ice caked the windows when I grazed by to tackle a painfully early Monday-morning-run. Today was...
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How I Will Cut 25 Minutes Off My 1/2 Marathon Time
Note: I wrote this a couple months before running the New Orleans Half Marathon and didn’t post it because I was struggling with the the fact that some of my posts were getting on my nerves. I was...
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Last Night I Ran
I started with an 20 warm up jog then got down to business: 30 sprint, 30 off, repeat 45 sprint, 45 off, repeat 60 sprint, 60 off, repeat 1:30 sprint, 1:30 off, repeat 60 sprint, 60 off 45 sprint, 45...
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It’s Heating Up – Swim, Bike, Run, Ironman
Juxtaposing Ironman training with other races is tricky. As I prepared for the New Orleans Half Marathon I was leery of doing too much because I wanted to run well, and it paid off. But now that it’s...
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Tom King Half Marathon
Today, part of the Fab 5 +1 went out to help at the Nashville Running Company water stop for the Tom King 1/2 Marathon. Jim, Kevin, and Alli rode their trainer bikes for inspiration, I handed out...
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Revisiting My First Country Music 1/2 Marathon
They told me I wouldn’t sleep much . . . and they were right. The Saturday before I had run the furtherst distance of my life, eight miles. It was a painful lumber in the rain with my fellow “Couch...
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I Am Not “A Runner”
There’s no question that running began my cascade into full-blown-endurance-obsession, but I can no longer sit back and let people say, “I love following your little running journey,” without some...
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Running in Nashville – The Nasty
Last night hundreds of East Nasties gathered on a sweltering evening to knock out the group’s signature run. If you live in Nashville, you’ve probably seen the black and white “East Nasty” bumper...
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How Do You Follow Up a 110 Mile Bike Ride?
Sometimes you get a sense that everything is fine, and that’s how I felt after Saturday’s 110 mile ride on Natchez Trace. It was my longest cycling experience by nearly 40 miles, but for some reason I...
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Like “The Flying Monkey” Isn’t Hard Enough
UPDATE: All the “hundreds” of 2013 Flying Monkey Pics have been moved here: Crushing Iron on Flickr Tomorrow I will witness a legendary running race. I will stand, shivering on the sidelines as a...
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Running With Momentum
A friend of mine called the other day and relayed some bad news. He’s a triathlete and was looking forward to this season, but the pain wasn’t going away. Finally he went for an MRI and they said his...
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Country Music Marathon – New Course
The organizers of Country Music Marathon in Nashville have changed their course for this year’s race. It used to start at Centennial Park and avalanche its way toward the Honky Tonks on Lower...
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Run Like a Kid #running
Note: I wrote this many moons ago, but never posted it. I am still reading Born to Run and it is an absolute gem of a novel. There is one great story after another, loaded with compelling thoughts on...
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Tennessee’s “Secret Race” is a Beast! #ultramarathon
Wow, this discovery just got the hair standing on my neck. And after combining the insight from my first trail race with the unbelievable information below, I am even more convinced that wilderness...
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Running Is Freedom
The only thing better than running six miles on a beautiful day is . . . knowing that you can. I was just back in my hometown for a few days and woke up to mid-70′s with a partly sunny sky. I sat on...
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