Category: marathon

  • You’ve likely seen this report about the women’s winner at Chickamauga this past weekend being DQd because her finish time was a virtual impossibility given her 13.1 split.  Read here and let me know what you think. This was my third marathon in 2010,  It is 2 loops around the Chickamauga Battlefield park, on a…

  • Read this:   Sub Elite Runners Chase Improvement And then read this: In many ways marathoning is the modern version of Sisyphus and the stone. We try and try and train and train, and we hope that one day that stone stays at the top of the hill, but deep down, we know it won’t…perhaps…

  • Gordon gets back to rambling about Disney’s new D23 “club,” has weird conversations with his sons, receives nice voice mails and birthday wishes from listeners, catches a cold, and does enough speed work to kill a horse. Running in Disneyland and Disney World Endurances races (1/2 or full marathon) in a calendar year?Check this out:http://disneyworldsports.disney.go.com/dwws/en_US/amateurSports/sportDetail/detail2?name=coast2coast2DetailPage&bhcp=1…

  • I informally began my half marathon training this week. Lisa will be sending me a half marathon training plan soon (right Lisa?) but after I ran three nice miles on Monday, she emailed me and told me to run 2 miles this morning with 3x 30 second bursts at 5K pace. It was a very…