Archive for June, 2009
Ed Lowery 5k Cross Country Bash
Saturday’s race will be a 5k cross country run at Bells Mill Park in Chesapeake in honor of Ed Lowery, a local coach who lost his battle with cancer last year. I’m not expecting a fast time and will just treat it as an intense tempo effort. The XC 5k will be my 28th race [...]
Western Branch 24 Hour Fundraiser Run
You may recall about a year ago, local runner Ryan Carroll running 100 miles in 24 hours on a track to raise money for cancer research, whilst his student athletes kept him company and took part in a 24 hour relay to raise money for their sport. Well this year Ryan’s athletes will be circling [...]
150 Miles Logged In The Newton Gravitas
It’s been a couple of months since logging my first miles in the 2008 Newton Gravitas and now, 150 miles later, I figured a quick update as to how they’re holding up is in order. As you can see in the pic on the left (click for larger view), the 150 mile shoe is definitely [...]
Almost A Rest Day
This morning I was thinking today could be a good day for a rest day. My last day off from running was May 21st, and although I don’t feel like time off, I keep hearing about the benefits of rest and recovery. Fast forward a few hours and I receive an email from a good [...]
Garmin Forerunner 405 Custom Workout
Lots of talk over at dailymile.com right now about the Garmin Virtual Partner and Garmin Custom/Advanced Workouts (partly my fault for keep mentioning it I suppose….) Hence tonight’s workout of the Garmin Custom variety: To set up one of these workouts, you’ll need to open up your Garmin Training Center software and add the various [...]
Virtual Partner Nine Miler
Set the Garmin Virtual Guy to run 9 miles at 7:27 pace and ended up with a really enjoyable “easy” run to take me to 60 miles for the week for the first time since early March. Honestly, it took a lot of self control to hold back and run 7:27s, but the slower pace [...]
