“Why did I want to do this?” I looked down at my watch this morning, and it showed I was 1.21 miles into the Firecracker 5K course. I was falling off pace and questioning why running the course means so much to me. After I spent my Fourth of July in bed and on medication […]
Searching for my lost 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 […]
Running quirks: you people are weird
Embrace the weirdness As my running group peeled off into the parking lot, finishing up a quick-paced workout, I continued on. I had another .18 of a mile to go before my brain would allow me to hit the stop button on my Garmin. My running friends thought nothing of the bonus steps my brain demanded. […]
Training setbacks, never welcome but unavoidable
No mug I watched the minutes tick off away on my Garmin and imagined where I should have been. It’s 8 a.m. Mentally, I’m sprinting through the Mall St. Vincent parking lot in Shreveport, headed for the first bottleneck of the Firecracker 5K. Two and a half minutes later, I turn right on Ockley to charge up the first […]
Firecracker 5K: using fear to run faster
Lining up for my first Firecracker 5K three years ago introduced me to an entirely new race-day motivator: fear. I had never raced 5Ks all out. Nerves before a race are normal, but on the Fourth of July, 2013, I was scared. My new running group did a great job telling me what to expect from the Firecracker course. […]
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