I've been in Monterey for over a day now getting ready for the race, and I think I've done everything I can. I ran 5 miles yesterday...

For someone who has spent the last year losing 35 pounds and being fairly careful with his diet, carbo loading is a scary thing to do. Carbo...

Elevation data on the typical GPS trainers runners use is notoriously bad. You can take a look at the raw GPS data from a run through Kansas...

I've never been particularly good about packing. Part of the reason, I think, is that I don't like making lists. This has gotten me ...

With any luck, by precisely one week from now I will have finished my first marathon. The Big Sur Marathon starts at 6:45 a.m. on May 1, so ...

My training schedule calls for a 13-mile run this weekend, just one week before my race. After the miles I've been logging as I train fo...

My primary goal for the Big Sur Marathon is to run it in 3:30:00 or better. That's an 8-minute pace, which is fairly ambitious for a fir...