My race calendar in 2017 was much thinner than in any of the previous five years. I had my third child in October 2016, and with two other kids under the age of eight at home, I just didn’t find as much time on the weekends to steal away for races. That being said, I raced in 13 total races, and each of them were pretty dang memorable.Cottage Grove Half I started the year off…
I started 2016 by putting in a lot of meters on my Concept2 rowing machine, and very few miles on the road or treadmill, because I finally decided it was time to let my nagging Achilles tendinitis resolve itself. My miles run/meters rowed by month tell the story: January: 29 miles/141,800 meters February: 53 miles/78,300 meters March: 67 miles/84,600 meters April: 91 miles/56,000 meters May: 117 miles/60,000 meters June: 118 miles/40,000 meters That’s 475 miles…
Matt: In 2014, I completed my first marathon at the Foot Traffic Flat. I vowed on that day to be done with the 26.2 mile distance. It wasn’t that I couldn’t handle it, it was just that I didn’t feel like putting in the training with a young family. In the beginning of 2016, my running was going really great for the first few months – so much so that I had an epiphany to…
Matt: My 2016 was the epitome of a pendulum. I started off 2016 on a high note, adding more and more miles with each passing day, week, and month. Things were progressing so well in fact, that I decided that May’s Eugene Marathon was attainable, even with no “real” training. I had a blast and the rest of the summer was really solid as well. However, with the birth of my 3rd girl in October…
