Rob's blog

The Park to Park Half Marathon is in the books and as I was hoping(or dare I even say...expecting) a new personal record time to boot! 1:43:41, a time I can be very happy with considering the course and where my training has been the past month. I'm also encouraged because I feel I know exactly where I can improve as I reflect back on this race and how it played out as well. Course Description  The race is a point to point race that takes you from Stuarts Draft Park to Ridgeview park in Waynesboro VA. Scenic rolling hills through the quiet valley countryside with a few designated spectator spots, pretty much the polar opposite of my last event (NYC Marathon) but I was really looking forward to the peace and quiet here. The designated spectator areas were great and there was enough to look at and focus on that it made the miles go by relatively fast. (at least until near the end...) I was a bit worried about the "gently rolling hills." Race directors lik...

Hello all, been a while since an update. It was a great winter, I backed way off with the mileage after NYC marathon in November and kept it that way for a good two to three months. I needed to recharge and focus on other priorities. January and February were also very challenging months work wise, with a couple weeks stretch with some serious overtime. That blew the running routine up quite a bit, but I was fine with that. I was still savoring the NYC effort, and I was finding time to get in some runs here and there, trying to stay healthy and eating (relatively) well. Overall it was a pretty easy winter to train through without too much snow/ice threats. We had one really cold two week stretch near the end of December and a couple smallish snow events but other than that it wasn't a particularly terrible winter weather wise. Amazingly I still haven't raced since the NYC marathon in November. Last year I ran four early season races but not this year, this has been my bigge...