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Race Report: The Flying Pig Marathon

And then there was the Pig. 29 days after running my first 50k, I ran my eighth full road marathon. I seemed to recover fairly quickly from the Forget the PR Mohican 50k, so it didn’t seem entirely crazy to put all of this season’s speed work to the test at the Flying Pig Marathonroughly one month later. There were complications from the very start of this year’s Flying Pig, though, so it quickly…

Four Months In And #NoDaysOff

I blinked and April was over. In what seemed like no time at all, my first 50k was in the record books and I had already returned to training with the BERunProject team. Since the turn of the year, I’ve run 626 miles, pedaled 676 miles with Peloton and spent about 14 hours in semi-private personal training sessions at Beyond Exercise. That’s a combined 135 hours worth of training over the last 18…

It's the spring equinox and my first 50K is 18 days away. Here's how things are going so far:

The Spring Equinoxis here and the Midwest is finally starting to show signs of life again. The days are getting noticeably longer and hints of green are starting to emerge from beneath the ever-present muck of this year’s cold, wet winter. While it’s too early to pack up my running tights for the season, I’m happy to report that I haven’t needed to wear my headlamp on my after-work runs for…

The Road to 50k: Back To Bockfest

This weekend marked the return of Cincinnati’s Bockfest, an annual series of events that celebrate the coming of Lent and – eventually – spring. It’s Zinzinnati’sGerman Catholic heritage at its finest and the festivities begin with a delightfully absurd parade on Friday evening that’s filled with monks on Segways, sausage queens and Krampus carts, goats and goatmen, and casks of blessed bock…

One Month In And #NoDaysOff

As 2018 came to a close, I promised myself that I would take a more consistent approach to my training in the New Year. The last 12 months of my life had been plagued by a string of work-related crises, a series of aggravating/expensive dental issues, and a couple of persistent running-related injuries, all of which derailed my original plans for 2018.

What bothered me most about my training in…