The Rundown

(update of original September 2007 post) I always said I’d quit running when my body told me to stop, not a doctor or my Mother or anyone el...

(Ed. note: Interviewed myself for Suite101 story about a comeback from painful half-mile on treadmill to 20-mile weeks -- over three months...

WALK THE WALK The Place: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton Ohio, September 15, 2007 Start Time: 7:35 AM...

Yesterday a chiropractor told me I didn't have much long-distance running in front of me because of my age . "Fifty-three? I didn&#...

Midsummer update : 14 weeks to Chicago....16 weeks to NY. Roy & Marabelle: Looks like they're headed to NY the first weekend of No...

A Kenyan? Well, it’s mostly true, if profiling is allowed in a Palm Beach County middle-school track meet. I mean, the kid with the #1 seed ...

Swansong..... NEW YORK: This week I paid for my guaranteed entry into NY -- about 80 bucks -- with the intent of rolling it over into anothe...

Who knew? Nick’s first track meet – three middle schools, including high-powered Odyssey. He’d blown away everyone on his team at the mi...

Miami Tropical Marathon 06. Kurt's 4:05 left him no worse for wear on a warm day and Ed racked up a personal best 5:31 -- weather means ...

One year ago, Kurt and I began to train for a sub-4 marathon in Chicago this past October. A bout with asthma/allergies in late summer hurt ...

Finishers Chicag05. It wasn't pretty for the bookends, but we all got there. Run onward....

Next time, let's meet where there's better head rests.

Feeling spry 26.2 later, and why not -- he got off the course much earlier

Eddie drinkin' da beer in shytown at da fountain.

Before the Expresso, after the death march.

7:05 a.m. Steve, Ed, Kurt. Does Ed's cap look a bit small? Or is his....

7.am. What's with the glasses?

26.2 is a wicked distance that can't be cheated. At the 24M mark, Kurt had the 4:00 Pace Team in sight 100 yards ahead, but his legs wo...

Kurt has the shits, an intestinal bug run amok. He's paranoid of falling down the stairs and twisting an ankle or stubbing a toe or wren...

Taper Time is a wonderful time. You've done the work, now it's time to coast. Eat your protein steak and eggs to repair damaged mu...

Bring on my inhaler. After a month of bending over to suck air only 15-30 minutes into every run, we now have an answer why. It's exerci...

It's peak season for this year's fall marathon, and I'm experiementing with a new tactic during these few critic weeks when you ...

Less than three weeks till the taper begins. Both Kurt and I are battling physical problems. Kurt, who was running lights out with a sub-4...

On a relatively cool 65 degree morning in San Francisco, Kurt laced up, found a hill-less six-mile stretch and destroyed his old personal be...

There are bad runs, and then there are bad runs. Last night was the latter. I decided to replace the 8 MP on the schedule for an easy 16, ge...

Kurt has offered to shield me and my foot from the winds off the lake. Here's a peak at the turn back to the east, a view of left shoul...

I read somewhere a running equivalent for aqua-jogging is your in-pool heartbeat plus 13 beats per minute, due to the fact the water keeps y...

I’m stopping running for at least a week. After three days of off and on discomfort in my right heel, I ran 8 yesterday on the treadmill wi...

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get worse. --Steve Prefontaine

Just do it, so he is. Ed has entered Chicago to speed-walk the loop from downtown to Wrigley to Comisky and back, his second marathon of th...

Where we're at Kurt has run a 16 mile long and turned in a quick 50:12 10K; I've reached my first 20 miler but haven't run a tim...

From: Kurt Tuesday, August 02, 2005 Today's run Ran half mile intervals each around 3:20. 5 of them with 1/2 mile slow jogs / walks in...

Back on the road. After 6 weeks of rest and rehab from four stress fractures, Kurt showed off his bike-spun VO2 this week with his first 5K...

Cranking the treadmill up to a 1% grade is equal in the effort of a land run. So says this bit of research, A 1% TREADMILL GRADE MOST ACCUR...

Still dizzy and queazy from severe dyhydration an hour after NY 2003. Shortly after this shot, I slumped on a curb in west Central Park whil...

Just plug in your max heart rate and resting heart rate, and it gives you the ranges for the 5 training zones. MHR is genetically predetermi...

Here's a better way to figure max heart rate. This is important in figuring training zones – how fast to run intervals, longs, tempos. 2...

Curious about how S. Fla.'s high temps and humidity were impacting my runs in the summer, I looked everywhere for this. More science: ...

For every pound you lose, you are one minute faster in a marathon. Science. At 182 (4:29), if you could get down to 152, you wouldn't ...

You can minimize the wear and tear on your body by replacing up to 25 percent of your mileage with biking, swimming, deep water running, ell...

Here's the most common and simplistic formula to measure effort based on heart beats: 220 - your age = maximum heart rate (MHR) For Kurt...

My desktop. New York's blue line through Central Park. Lottery in mid-June, both Kurt and I are in the pool. 2006?

I once read a ditty in RW that said you know you're a marathoner if 18 weeks is an important block of time. So here we are -- 18 weeks ...

Great site for calculator. Plug in your latest 5K or 10K time trial....and it tells you how fast you should be doing your easy runs, tempos...

I've always said the toughest part of marathoning is getting to the start line. By that, I mean it's so difficult avoiding the minef...

Kurt is officially chronic with another bout of shin splints, and heading to a sports physician next week, probably ending up with a new pai...

Hills (for me, bridges over the Intracoastal and I-95) start this week on our schedule. Here's suggestions from Jeff Galloway, for sub-4...

You know that feeling at the end of a marathon or long runs where your legs tighten and grow excessively fatigued, like you're running i...

The first 6-week session down, four to go. Just like that. We had a kidney stone, illness, shin splints, bought core ball, new shoes, and st...

Progressing nicely with running/workouts till this week5, when baseball took over. Five-game tournament over the weekend, and a couple more ...

Blood in the urine. Who wants to read about that ? Well, for years, I couldn't read enough about it. I couldn't talk to enough docto...

You say you're going out for a short run, and come back two hours later.....You shower 12 times a week.....You start buying energy gels ...

Postscript on yesterday's post: The docs decided the stone was too close to the kidney to obliterate it with shock waves. So Kurt opte...

Which hurts more? It's not even close, actually. Take your worst-ever ending of a marathon, the one where you're bonking badly, dehy...

Back in 1983, my first serious bout of shinsplints sidelined me only weeks before my second Orange Bowl marathon with Roy. Talk about disapp...

Bingo! http://www.coachbenson.com/images/8090.pdf This Coach Benson site is great. This particular chart gives you the 10K time (51:00 min...

Spiffed out in mylar and Breathright. (Kurt, Chi04)

It's pre-dawn, still dark out, wife's asleep, you put on your shorts, tank, socks, shoes. Squeek! Like you're killing a mouse...

Based on 5K or 10K times, how fast should you run on an easy or recovery run (60-75% effort)? Or a 20-minute tempo run (80% effort)? Or hill...

Hitting the wall may have less to do with running out of glycogen, more to do with damaged muscles that send signals to the brain to slow do...

Germs from traveling left Kurt sick all week, an occupational hazard. As new training gear, he's thinking about wearing a white surgical...

AP, CNN and others reporting this morning that Vioxx may be coming back out on the market. New science shows the unique benefit of the drug ...

Imagine a knee so screwed up, pieces of cartilage, about the size of a quarter, float around freely, unattached, in the joint's fluids, ...

My butt feels like somebody poured concrete in my glutes. Or whacked the hell out of it with a two-by-four. Sore sore. Tenderized. I need...

Sounds boring already, and I promised. But it's been bugging me. Do we get faster by training longer at marathon pace? Or should we stic...