A whole lot of soles...

One thousand blog posts. Jesus that's a lot of writing. Forget Twitter and its 140 characters, or thousands of tweets, this is a real mi...

The last two running days have been heaven in Toronto. Temperatures hovering above zero, a few moments of sunshine. I swear everyone was in ...

I don't mind as much getting in the miles during the maintenance period, the weeks and months between training. I do mind the fact that ...

I was just thinking on a recent run on my path how many hundreds of time I've gone back and forth. Soon enough, you see enough things, l...

Such is the life a marathoner in training. I've been at this for awhile and I've got a while to go. The last week went quite well,...

Today's the longest run in the cycle and looking forward in my schedule, I don't have another long run of this length. When you do t...

I had stacked my long run for this past Thursday when I did 21 miles, so I could avoid the awful heat in DC, but this morning, I was greeted...

It was a happy coincidence that I made a pitstop at my condo after I'd done 12 miles. I filled my bottles, ate a GU and, for some reason...

It was the real deal, the flu. Was out for two-plus days and I took off three days from running. On Saturday, I thought maybe I could do a 5...

I still look at my weekly schedule and get a little intimidated with the number of runs and the miles I have planned. This week, for example...

What keeps us going at a reasonably fast speed for 26.2 miles or 42.2 kilometres? I asked myself that question this morning while I was doin...

Well, that was my break, 5 weeks off of marathon training. It's almost been like a reverse taper. The mileage from the past five weeks: ...

If I were following the marathon recovery program, I'd be doing 9 miles today. Nope, I'm trying to boost my fitness to get ready f...

Okay, even though I saw the $275 Canadian charge on my credit card bill today from the New York City Marathon, I'm going to bite the bul...

For some odd reason, I'm breaking the marathon training rules. Next Sunday, I'm running in the Sporting Life 10K race (presented by ...

I was just looking over my training logs for the mileage I've lost to my cold/flu in the past month. It was pretty bad, one of the longe...

Today's long run went okay. Not sure if I was dehydrated or just a little tired but 26K felt a little harder than I thought it would, g...

Today finish my last pre-training run before the 12 week program begins tomorrow. My target race for this marathon cycle is the Mississauga ...

I've been reading Huruki Murakami's ' What I Talk About When I Talk About Running ,' his memoir about being a novelist and a...

Finally think I hit a good running week, topped off 34 miles with a 13 miler today. The weather was just perfect, sunny and warm for a Febru...