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2016 was a busy year - in total, I ran eight races. While four of them were all in one weekend for Disney's Dopey Challenge, it was still a lot of early mornings for me. For 2017, I am going to scale...

For the fourth year in a row, on Columbus Day weekend, I have completed the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Previous years have culminated in mixed results, both by the clock and in my own...

The Dopy Challenge is a four day event at Walt Disney World Resorts. Thursday - Pluto's 5k Friday - Minnie's 10k Saturday - Donald Duck's Half Marathon Sunday - Mickey Mouse's Marathon In...

A friend forwarded me an article from Runner's World (written by editors at Men's Health) titled "8 True Tests of Your Overall Fitness". The article describes the test, drones on about the author's...

Another summer, another marathon season. Montrose at 6:00 am I will be continuing to be a pace leader at the Montrose site for the Chicago Area Runners Association (CARA). Two years ago, I was a...

All of my other marathon posts seem to have the "three parts" theme going, so it probably fits for this writing. On the second of May, I ran the Wisconsin Marathon in Kenosha. It is combined with a...

For any serious runner, looking through training plans inevitably leads to the discovery that they all want you to do hill repeats. Hal Higdon (basically the godfather of running in Chicago),...