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Whether you’re ready or not, here it comes.  On Sunday, 45,000 runners, walkers, and cyclists will take to the streets of Chicago to test the limits of the mind and body.  If you’re reading this and you happen to be one of them, relish in the fact that you get to take it easy until [...]

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a taper.  It’s been a long, hard road over the past 3 months and I really felt it last week.  I had to cut my endurance run short on Saturday as my left leg began giving out on me, so I only ended up making it [...]

While many Chicago Marathon trainers have hit their peak over the past week, we are g0ing to lag a week behind.  This week will be our final “tough” week as we hit the top of our training schedule, and then begin our taper next week.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term [...]

It was a beautiful morning to race here in Chicago on Sunday.  At gun time it was in the mid 50s and it didn’t crawl above 65 before the race was finished.  Nonetheless, I had a tough time and didn’t come anywhere near my goal.  Once again, I battled some illness that crept up on [...]

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. -Pre Following a sub par performance in the Rock and Roll Half Marathon earlier this month, I am [...]

I’m not going to lie, toward the end of last week, I was basically a broken man.  By the time the 50 minutes was up during Tuesday’s tempo run, the odometer had struck over 8 miles and I was dead.  Wednesday was much needed, but still wasn’t enough rest for me.  I struggled on Thursday [...]

I just wrapped up the toughest week I’ve had in a long while.  When I was training for Big Sur back in the “Spring” (we don’t really have Spring in Chicago), I promised myself that I would take it easy and not be too intense about the training.  When people asked what my goal for [...]