It is the end of February and I get to do a quick look back and think about the progress I have made for getting ready to run the Marine Corps Marathon in October. It is hard to believe that in just over 6 months I will be running a marathon again. I have some …
Category Archive: Reflection
Feb 25
Still Just a Little Competitive
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that I am a crotchety old fart and that I haven’t completely lost my competitiveness. The truth is I don’t think I am all that different from a lot of other older runners, who are also still very competitive. Just because we have more salt than pepper on top, doesn’t mean …
Feb 23
Trying the Hanson Method on a Recovery Run
Today was an off day after yesterday’s long run, but with the storm coming in tomorrow, I figured that I would just run 3.0 or so to clean the gunk out of the legs and get moving around a little more. I have been reading and am about 3/4 of the way through the Hanson’s Marathon Method …
Feb 22
Less Fear, Less Stresss #RealHealth
Typically on Tuesday’s, I have a blog post published on Anthem’s Real Health Blog. The Twitter hashtag is #RealHeath. I believe that readers here might be interested in what the other contributors and I are writing and vlogging about there. So I will be providing a link here on A Veteran Runnah, to the posts …
Feb 06
#RealHealth – The Three Pillars of Overcoming Self-Doubt
Typically every Tuesday, I have a blog post published on Anthem’s Real Health Blog. I believe that readers here might be interested in my and the other contributors writing and vlogging, so I will be providing a link here on A Veteran Runnah, to the posts after they are published. The Three Pillars of Overcoming …
Feb 03
Hypothermia – It is no Joke
Some of you suggested that I do a post on the warning signs of hypothermia, after writing about my run yesterday. Hmmm what happened? 4.0 miles into a planned 13.1 mile training run, I had a call of nature stop and exposed too much of my body, including my hands to temps in the very low …
Feb 01
January – Month in Review
January – you know that month that we all love so much! No I am not being sarcastic, January is the start to the new year and many of us, begin to make changes in our lives during this month. We put together goals/resolutions and the like to do whatever better, well at least differently …
Jan 29
A Veteran Runnah – Has it Been a Year?
Wow! I have been so busy that I missed A Veteran Runnah’s one year blogoversary on January 23rd. That’s right this version of my blog – A Veteran Runnah has only been around for a year as a WordPress.com blog (my first post here) and a only a couple of months before that as a …








