Race Review: 2015 Space Coast Marathon (11/29/2015), or: “It’s like I told you, I came from outer space…”

You know, the funny thing about the 2015 Space Coast Marathon was that I came into it with a completely carefree, lackadaisical attitude, and that’s a real odd thing to have right before running 26.2 miles, in the heat, just for “fun”. I also love the word “lackadaisical”, and I haven’t had an opportunity to…

Race Review: 2014 Space Coast Marathon (11/30/2014), or: “Just like the light of a new day, it hit me from out of the blue…”

You know, it always comes down to this eternally ponderous struggle: The Journey vs. the Destination. Wherein lies the biggest payoff? That’s sort of the theme for today’s race review, and no, the video won’t be by Journey, because we’ve all had enough of that lately. And by “lately” I mean “since 1983”. Anyway, let’s…

Training for a Marathon over the Summer, or: “On seeing my reflection I’m looking slightly rough…”

Yes! More self-absorbed runner talk! Who’da thunkit coming from this blog? How excited are you to read all about my summer training pro– Well anyway… I get that this isn’t the most exciting and entertaining of subjects to my non-running audience… if I even have one. I’m not quite sure that it’s even of interest…

So I decided to run another Full Marathon (26.2 miles), or: “Lady space, you better wake up fast, countdown is comin’ on…”

So… hah. Remember when I mentioned that I was “retired” from running Full Marathons? Yeah that proclamation really took it in the shorts… You know, I’ve run only one Full. ONE. It was punishing enough. Afterward it wasn’t like I exactly swore off doing another, but the concept of ‘retirement’ sounded fine by me. The…