1st Post

I've been enjoying the blogs of many local (and not-so-local) runners for awhile now, so I figured that maybe some people might be interested in my running experiences as well. There will be commentary on current events as well, especially if they involve bad math, statistics, youth sports and running at any level.

A brief history of my running: I started running on 4/15/1984, the day before the Boston Marathon that year. I was 16 years old and had challenged myself to run the 1985 Maine Coast Marathon. While I didn't ever hit that goal, I did maintain a pretty steady love affair with running ever since. I've had plenty of injuries during my 24 years and have had a lot of times when life limited me to doing only occasional runs. I ran two seasons of x-c and one season each of indoor and outdoor track while in high school (Biddeford, Maine). In college (Bentley), I ran 11 of 12 seasons, missing only my sophomore year outdoors, due to a serious IT Band injury. I've never won an official race, or even a heat, but have finished 2nd or 3rd numerous times. I've won my age group at times and have finished in the middle of the pack as well. I've been on winning teams (college x-c) and a lot of losing teams.

I am currently an active member of the Merrimack Valley Striders and have been with them since 1994.

Today, I ran 9.5 miles in 71:52 to give me 47.5 miles for the week. As I'm going to the Pats game tomorrow, so that's all for this week. This is my highest weekly total in 8 years. If life permits, I'm shooting for 50 next week. (wow, when you put the goals out there for the whole world to see, you feel the incentive/pressure right away).