The Volvo Tierparklauf is the race that turned into a non-race for me. I originally wanted to train to run a personal 5K record, but then life got in the way and my training was totally sub-par. Then I found out the course had to be changed from a 5K to a 5.6K in order …
I guess it’s time to fill you in on Sunday’s race, right? Given the fact that my training was rather minimal this time around, I didn’t have terribly high expectations for this half marathon. Although I’d been hoping to at least PR (and maybe even get a little closer to my sub-2:00 goal), after taking some …
To end the year right, we signed ourselves up for Hannover’s Silvester-Börsenlauf — a 5.8 km race around the Maschsee* on New Year’s Eve day. Since it’s such a strange distance and because I hadn’t specifically trained for the race, the point was purely to have fun (we didn’t even bother with timing chips). It was …
So last you heard, I had come down with a cold no less than two days before the race that I’d been training for for 8 weeks. The timing couldn’t have been worse. After suffering all weekend from sinus pain, sore throat, and congestion — sounds like I walked straight out of a Nyquil commercial, …