10/51 miles. Got injured, took the weekend off to recover. Tuesday: 10 miles (9:08 pace). This week: Schedule says 7/5/7/31. A lot depends on my appointment with the orthopedist on Wednesday....

Since I trained for my first marathon in 2007 (exactly five years ago today, actually), I've had persistent calf soreness in my left leg. Typically, the soreness has manifested itself as just...

Let's tally up what we've done. I bet you did better than I did. 20/40 miles. Not good. Tuesday: 6.8 miles (8:35 pace). Really digging the early-morning 7 mile route from the new place. God a bug...

Hey, how'd your training go last week? Hop in the comments here and share your success (or frustrations) of another week of running.

Another month down, another one begins. How was your training last week? Mayo: 37 of 42 planned miles. Took Sunday off to ensure that I'm recovered from Saturday's long run. Felt good otherwise....

Lately I've been making an effort to observe and learn on each run. Sometimes I just observe dumb things that make me laugh, other times I re-learn how difficult it can be running in the heat....

I had some fun sightings out on the roads this week. Ya'll see anything neat? Mayo: 38 of 42 planned miles. Recovered from last week's debacle of a weekend pretty well. Had to cut my long run a...

I had a really bad run last Sunday -- the kind of lumbering, dead-legged affair that started out miserable and steadily got worse. The previous week's heat was mostly gone but the humidity...

Sometimes a week of training starts out great, then the temperatures drop and are wonderfully mild -- and then training inexplicably becomes awful. This was one of those weeks. Mayo: 29 of 40...

Research suggests we drink way too much while running these days.

Mayo: of 32 planned miles. Traveled down to Durham, NC for the weekend and didn't get as much running in as I'd hoped. Tuesday: 5 miles (8:36 pace). Started running with a co-worker, though about...

"The fight is only fifteen minutes, but the process is months, years. If it was just about the fight I'd have a miserable life." -- MMA fighter Greg Jackson, in The Fighter's Mind A couple of...

Mayo: 36 out of 38 planned miles. Felt good, but the week-long heat was pretty oppressive. Had some weekend shuffling of the runs in order to better manage the heat in terms of the long run. Felt...

One of the biggest goals of my writing on this, the Stridey-est of Nations, was to keep myself honest as a runner: by talking about running in a running-centric venue, I'll likely put forth an...

There was a big storm this weekend (derecho!!) that came through through most of the northeastern portion of the country. Downed trees made Saturday's run interesting for me. Anybody else deal with...

The Olympic Trials are going on right now, so it's not like we don't have a fresh dose of inspiration. How was your training (or injury recovery) last week? Mayo: 32 out of 34 planned miles. T...