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First California impressions: the weather lives up to the hype

September 10, 2016 by Brent

California impressions

  I’ve been in California for 10 days. Here are my first California impressions, in no order of importance. No. 1: The weather is amazing. Who would think that San Diego, a place with average yearly temperature of less than 70 degrees, would have nice weather all 10 days so far? Of course the weather is […]

Filed Under: Life, Running Tagged With: fitness, goals, heat, heat running, humidity, long run, marathon, marathon training, motivation, runner, running, San Diego, Shreveport, summer, training, training plan, west, west coast

Sneaking in a final Shreveport track session

August 24, 2016 by Brent

Shreveport track

Shreveport-Bossier City has the third largest metropolitan population in Louisiana, and it comes in behind New Orleans and Baton Rouge. There are less than 500,000 people here. It would barely crack the top ten area populations in Texas.  Yet, here in a much smaller setting, the running community is thriving. I will argue that it rivals running groups from […]

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Waving the white flag to Louisiana summer 2016

August 22, 2016 by Brent

Louisiana summer

I’m doing it. I’m waving the white surrender flag. You win, Louisiana summer 2016. Sadly, reaching this decision took a long time. “You’re eventually going to be heat acclimated,” I told myself. As I ran Sunday night, however, I realized I’m fooling myself to think I have any chance to prevail over this heat and […]

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Searching for my lost running gears

July 13, 2016 by Brent

running gears

I mash my foot to the floorboard. My RPMs rise higher and higher, yet I can’t shift up. If my body is a running machine, then I’m missing crucial running gears. I learned how to drive with on a stick shift, a 1989 Ford Bronco II. The gears were butter, barely any need for the […]

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Garmin 735XT GPS watch review

July 5, 2016 by Brent

My name is Brent, and I have a problem. I’m addicted to running stats. If my Garmin isn’t recording, I might as well not run. If you can’t see a run and evaluate the numbers after, it didn’t happen right? I started with the Nike+ running app on my phone back in 2010. I progressed to […]

Filed Under: Running technology Tagged With: 735XT, fitness, Garmin, goals, GPS, GPS watch, marathon, marathon training, motivation, run, runner, running, running technology, Shreveport, training, training plan, workouts

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Brent Shirley My name is Brent Shirley, and I'm a stay-at-home dad with experience writing and selling running shoes. Married to a surgeon (she's much smarter than me). Certified RRCA running coach and 11 time Boston Marathon qualifier (2015-25, although I missed the cut in 2015-16). 50 sub 4 finisher.

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