Ran 20 miles this weekend

Saturday, 10 miles. Sunday, 10 miles. That’s the first time I’ve ever done back-to-back long runs, and both runs came in slightly under my target marathon pace of 10:18. Saturday was around a 1:41 minutes, putting me at about a 10:08 pace. Sunday was about 1:42:35, which put me around a […]

Pre-Training Diet: One Pint of Graeter’s Ice Cream

Well, I haven’t read this anywhere, but my marathon pre-training strategy has been the following:

Do absolutely no running the week before the training starts
Eat too much, mostly the “wrong” stuff (don’t worry, it’s all part of my strategy)
Eat one (ok, slightly more than one) pint of Graeter’s Ice Cream

One week off and then the Mary training starts

This is my one week off of running until the training starts in preparation for the Philadelphia Marathon on November 17, 2007. I’ll be doing the Hal Higdon training program, using the Intermediate 1 approach. That put’s me out there with a few 20 milers, and an average of 25-30 miles per week. […]

Broad Street Run: Something’s afoot!

Broad Street Run, 2006: 1:43:47 on the Chip.
Broad Street Run, 2007: 1:29.37 on the Chip.

Country Music Half Mary: Destroyed it!

I’m not sure how I did it. Might have been the one beer/one white wine I had the day before the race. Might have been the cigar I smoked while watching the total nutcases run laps on the hotel lawn as if it was going to actually help them one day before the […]

Another Pixeldust Film makes it debut!

This movie represents the latest in my Video Biography portfolio and has a whole slew of new-found technologies as part of the project. We did a 2-day shoot with the jaw-dropping HVR-Z1U, and used a series of softboxes to light the subjects. Amazingly, we did absolutely NO color correction on the second day […]