With only three months until Disney Marathon Weekend, I’ve run myself right down to the wire. If I start training tonight, which I did, I would have time to ramp up to 20 miles, then taper for two weeks before the marathon. It’s unfortunate I didn’t start training a few weeks earlier like I had…
This was my second year running in this event though I did the half-marathon in 2007. In retrospect, I probably should have done the half-marathon in 2008 too. By the time I ran this event, I had completed a packed schedule of races and also just finished coaching for Team In Training, which brought the…
As a marathon coach for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training program, I took a group of 32 runners to San Francisco to participate in the 2008 Nike Women’s Marathon and Half-Marathon. The event is a massive annual gathering for Team In Training fundraising groups. There were groups from all over the United…
The Baltimore Running Festival includes several races: a marathon, half-marathon, team relay marathon, and a 5-kilometer (3.1 mile) race. Interestingly, all of these races are on the same course at the same time at some point in the event. Even more interestingly, the race directory pulls this off in a somewhat seamless fashion, allowing all…
The 2008 Disney Marathon was my first marathon and by far my most memorable. The event is at Walt Disney World, so the location is fantastic and the weekend is totally enjoyable, even if only because there is so much to do around the property. The fact that it’s hosted on Disney property also leads…