paulradcliffe.me archive
Category: General Running and/or Fitness
April 1, 2013
To Berlin?
There are a lot of reasons I wanted to do the BWM Berlin Marathon: It’s one of the World Marathon Majors. I had a notion of doing all of them at one point. I’ve already done Chicago and London. I have a longshot dream of someday qualifying for, and running the Boston Marathon. And I guess New York and Toyko would be nice. So, Berlin seemed like just another logical step. I also rather enjoyed my trips to London and Chicago. Okay, London didn’t go so well… but the idea of mixing races with travel in general seems very nice.[…continue reading]
March 27, 2013
Around The Bay Group Pic… Growing into something ridiculous
So… It looks like I had too much time on my hands. This little photo got out of hand. It started as a nice keepsake, then got creative, then a little ridiculous. I love it! The original photo was taken with Dio Torne’s iPhone and posted on Twitter. It’s a picture of the Square One Running Room‘s marathon clinic in Copps Coliseum before the 2013 Around The Bay 30k. Sam J. probably doesn’t realize it, but while we were collecting for the group shot, the camera got passed to her and she took the original photo. As it turns out,[…continue reading]
March 22, 2013
Habemus Garmin
With all the Pope Francis media recently, the title for this post seems particularly appropriate and ironic. I had a really lousy run on Sunday: I’ve been having a lot of trouble all season getting the pace and intensity I’m used to. I’ll comment on my performance issues in a different post. But, the real tipping point of the run was that my trusty Garmin 405 died after about 10km. I was very sad that my Garmin died, but not surprised. It was having trouble holding charge for a few weeks. I’ve worn it almost every day for almost[…continue reading]
