Mar 05
Last week I got some GREAT news that was very unexpected. Let me back up a little, so that you understand why it was unexpected, but very cool. My blog’s name “A Veteran Runnah”, especially the Veteran part is actually a play on words and has three meanings. 1. I am a runner who has been …
Jan 07
Okay I admit it – and will be honest with you I am nervous, no make that scared! Okay what’s going on Harold? My goal of running the Marine Corps Marathon in under 3:30:00 is scaring the hell out of me! What are you talking about? Here you are – that positive guy, who can …
Oct 31
I saw this link on Twitter yesterday and watched it. 30 years ago I started the 1982 Marine Corps Marathon and racked up a DNF. The next year I finished the Marine Corps Marathon. Watching it touched a part of my soul and made my conviction to train and run next year’s Marine Corps Marathon …
Sep 03
In my post New Blog Focus–2013 Marine Corps Marathon, I announced publicly my goal of running a sub 3:30 at the 2013 Marine Corps Marathon. In that post, I didn’t allow myself to use words like: if I can, attempting, maybe, possibly or the dreaded “try". What is trying?
Sep 02
Over the past month I have done a lot of thinking about my running and my blog. This morning I decided to change the focus of A Veteran Runnah and updated it to reflect my new focus. It is now public! My running goal for 2013 and new blog focus is to: Finish the Marine …
Mar 11
Spring is coming as you can see brook opening up, down-back is snow, mud and ice-covered, so if you go down there you will get muddy, but still have to watch your step. Best of all, I ran a long run in shorts and no jacket and felt comfortable! This was first week that I …
Mar 08
After yesterday’s tough hill workout and the miles I put in already this week today was supposed to be an easy day and I started out that way, but after I got warmed up, I just ran the way my body wanted to. The New Balance MT110s actually felt really great and didn’t bother my …
Feb 19
I took 3 days off last week and Monday off too, while attempting to be smarter about letting an injury heal. I tried to slowly come back to running, but it has also been a week of trying to find the “right” shoe, seeing how the shoes performed at different speeds and how they felt …
