Run the Year 2021: Run/Walk 2,021 miles in 2021. This was an awesome virtual running challenge brought to us by Run The Edge. What could go wrong? Whelp. It didn’t go exactly as planned, but I got it done. As a running coach, I advise all my runners going into a race to have three goals. You’ve got you’re “A” goal which is almost out of reach, your “B” goal which is still a challenge…
**This post was originally posted by current Oregon Brewery Running Series co-founder Nathan Freeburg at the now defunct Minneapolis Running website. We have re-posted here with his permission.** In the past few years, I ran a 1:30:06 half marathon. It wasn’t a PR, but it felt amazing since I was expecting to run between 1:35 – 1:40. Almost exactly a year before that, I ran a 1:30:12 half marathon, and was devastated. I trained pretty…
If you are like me, you resisted the virtual race trend for a long time. Many runners are understandably not as keen to running a virtual race as a “real” face-to-the-start-line race. There are many things you can’t experience, like race jitters and standing elbow to elbow with fellow runners waiting for that announcer to let you run across the first timing mat. The excitement of the day isn’t the same and the thrill of…
The following has been submitted by Run Oregon reader, Brian James Siddons – Runner, Writer, Poet. We’ve all been there on race day. Plans made, gun goes off and instantly our brain becomes a balloon let loose at the fair. Thoughts we had prepared for weeks, maybe months, to succeed on race day are dispersed to the wind, as is our only chance for success. Holding back at the start of a distance race is…
Almost every runner I know has dealt with some sort of setback in pursuit of their goals. Whether it be for a couple of days, weeks, months or, God forbid, years, being a runner means you need some sort of resilience to external forces preventing you from reaching your dreams Obviously 2020 sucked. I don’t need to talk about it in detail – heck we all lived it – but it was clearly not great.…
It is that season, that lingering in between winter and spring, where days are changing and the weather is in constant flux. It is also cold and flu season. When an illness hits, you can hardly get out of bed, let alone run. So, what do you do? Rest and sacrifice your training? Power through and risk delaying your recovery? As most things, taking each day as it comes, and really listening to your body…
