First, here’s the past week: ———————————————————————- 02-22-2010 Mon-AM: 15 miles (2:17) Green Mt. Ranger-Greenman, 2800′               Ridiculously beautiful, clear morning.  2″ new snow.        PM: 13 miles (2:00) Green Mt. Ranger-Greenman, 2800′              Legs felt great but snow kept things slow and easy.02-23-2010Tue-AM: 14 miles (2:10) Green Mt. Ranger-Greenman, 2800′  …

(The frosty visage of my muse, from my apartment.) Early Wednesday afternoon I snuck out the door in between extensive sessions of reading peer-reviewed environmental research.  I was earnestly attempting, but only marginally succeeding, to assimilate the methods and findings presented in Regulation of the nitrogen…

Some more fleshed-out details of my training is something that I’ve had a few requests for, so I thought I’d give it a shot this week, but I’m not sure whether I’ll make it a regular deal.  I record my training in detail in other…

Yesterday morning was my 50th ascent of Green Mountain in the last 48 days, which makes me half-way to my objective of completing 100 ascents in the first 100 days of the year.  It was pretty much like any of the other 48 past mornings,…

I fell down three times on my run this morning.  Stepping out the door in the pre-dawn darkness I knew it was one of those days.  A day where a curb presents an obstacle and the legs simply won’t lift.  This morning was my 49th…

For many years now, I have generally been of the get-out-and-run-in-the-morning-before-I-do-anything-else-today-because-it’s-the-most-important-thing persuasion.  This is not to say that I don’t log many a two-a-day session, it’s just that my second run of the day is typically shorter, easier, and flatter than the morning outing.  Less…

January has been a relatively good month with regards to my running.  By the sheer numbers: 488 miles71h 50min91,500′ of vertical31 summits of Green Mountain 0 days off Which means that it’s objectively been my best January since 2007 when I was training like a…