Hungry has nothing to do with it…
This is part two of my report of the 2018 Dark Side Half Marathon weekend – I again did the First Order Challenge, which means I ran the 10k on Saturday and the half marathon on Sunday. I talked about the expo and the 10k here. This is the race report for the half marathon. […]
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In the afterglow of Ragnar Washington DC, my friend and van-mate Dave had me convinced to run my first full marathon this spring. We tentatively chose a race, we made tentative plans, we tentatively started looking at training schedules, the whole nine. And then, back in January, he realized that a nagging injury and the […]
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I thought that Ragnar DC was going to be my last run for a while. My plan had been to run that event, enjoy myself, and then take some time off from running to focus on some CrossFit goals. I like how running makes me feel, but sometimes the actual doing of the thing is […]
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This is part two of my Ragnar Washington DC race report – if you haven’t read part one, you should click on this right now to head over there and read that first. When we left off, we were pulling into Exchange #12 for our first break of the event. The exchange was at a […]
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OK – it is time. Let’s talk about Ragnar. So … last Thanksgiving I ran a 10k (still stands as my 10k PR, ahem) with my sister-in-law and very good friends who’s house we were crashing in the DC area. Great morning, great race, really had a good time. During the drive, somebody mentioned a […]
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This is part 1 of my Dark Side Challenge race report – you can see the half marathon review here. Hi. My name is Matthew – and I’m a Star Wars nerd. I own that. Really own it. And so it was a natural fit to make my first runDisney race … the Star Wars […]
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In retrospect, I should have expected the email. For whatever reason, though, I didn’t, and was a bit surprised when: “Looking forward to seeing everybody on Thanksgiving – hey, there is a 10K about 45 minutes away – anybody want to do that?” So, I signed up for a 10K on Thanksgiving morning.
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Update – 12/19/2016 – the race published pictures! I talked about each individual picture here, but I want to come back in and put them into this post for anybody that might be looking for reports on this race. Pictures! Here’s how the website describes, in part, The Florida Run at Lake Louisa State Park: […]
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Selecting my first “race” (event is really more correct, but they’re called races so we’ll go with that) back from my little hiatus was an interesting thought experiment. I’m new to the area, so I want to explore – but my son is older, too, and it would be fun to not have to drive […]
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Aaaaand – we’ve got a continuity issue. This event was my 4th, in June of 2013. If anybody is counting, that would make it race report #4. However, I never did a race report on this event – some of which was laziness, some of which was politeness, some of which was dissatisfaction with my […]
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