Races
2013 Shamrock Marathon – Back to the 26.2
Since January 13th I don’t think a day has passed where I haven’t thought about my DNF at the 2013 Houston Marathon. It’s not like I’ve been dwelling on it for huge amounts of time, but I guess the disappointment of how the race panned out is still lingering. I do know, however, it was [...]
Triple Success at the Distance Series 30K
Happy days at my first race since the Rocky Raccoon 100 – the Tidewater Striders Distance Series 30K. Despite minimal running since the 100 Miler, I had three goals in mind for this race: Gain payback for the glute injury suffered at last year’s 30K, where I pulled up lame after 9 miles and ended [...]
Rocky I – 2013 Rocky Raccoon 100 Race Recap
Where do I begin? Guess I should rewind 28 weeks to July 2012 when I took the plunge and signed up for what would be my debut 100 Miler. I’d managed to run 106.25 miles at the 2011 24-HR ATR , but decided the time was right to attempt my first 100. Rocky Raccoon, advertised [...]
Houston Marathon, We Have a Problem
After a challenging, but successful, 4 to 5 weeks training since the Seashore Nature Trail 50K, Sunday’s Chevron Houston Marathon was supposed essay writing tips to be a confidence boosting race. In fact, the pre-race plan was to go for broke and target a new marathon PR. Unfortunately, things don’t always go to plan, so [...]
Week in Review and the Richmond Marathon
Not a bad week if truth be told! Started things off with a rare double on Monday – 5 steady miles in the morning, followed by a slightly longer/slower run in the afternoon. The morning run was a bit of a struggle, but things went much better in the afternoon. Tuesday was a solid effort, [...]
2012 Moe’s 5K Challenge
Had fun at the 2012 Moe’s Challenge last weekend, although I think my burrito-eating skills are in better shape than my running ability at the moment. Saying that, I got through the 5K relatively pain-free, and hope to be able to build back into some regular training very soon. For the record, my finish time [...]
Weeks in Review – w/c 10/1/12 & w/c 10/8/12
Falling behind a little with the blog updates, and I can’t really blame it on lack of time. I guess not much in the way of running has been happening at Run Bulldog Run, so motivation to blog about a mish mash of workouts is pretty low. Anyway, for those that are interested, cross training [...]
Lessons Learnt at the OSS/CIA 50 Mile Night Run
Last weekend’s 50 Mile Night Run at Prince William Forest Park was one of the most surreal races I’ve been fortunate to take part in. My goal, as stated in last week’s blog post, was simply to have fun, enjoy the rare opportunity for some night running and to hopefully finish the 50 miles in [...]
Full Bloom 13.1 by Final Mile Events
Last year I ran the excellent Gibbet 50; a local Ultra distance event put on by Final Mile Events. For some reason I find it hard to resist an inaugural race, so decided [kind of last minute if truth be told] to jump in on the Full Bloom 13.1 . I wanted to see how [...]
Good Day at the Virginia is for Lovers 14K
Saturday turned out to be one of those rare race days when everything just clicked. Maybe it was the slightly-longer-than-usual four mile warm up, or perhaps it was the fact that I actually took time to stretch and further loosen up the legs before heading to the start line? Who knows? Anyway, for some reason [...]
