If you have have mutliple accounts setup in Outlook you will know that one is usually set to the default. That means you create a new email using Ctrl+N or the New E-Mail button you would expect to see the sending from account be your default account. Well, that used to be the case with…
Race Report – Patriot Half-Ironman
This year was much different that last year for me. Last year I had to worry about was my bike actually going to work after it flew behind my friend Mike’s car!! Well, this year I thought it might be better for me to do the driving. Mike and I had an extra passenger this…
Race Report – Great Bay Half-Marathon
Headed up to Great Bay for the annual half with my friend Ray. I felt like I was going to have a pretty good race. Each week up until the race I had been doing a run of almost a half-marathon and even thought the pace is slower at a training pace it does give…
Race Report – Ras na hEireann
Ok, so this race report is a little bit late, I know I haven’t really been keeping up with the blog. This race was on March 10, 2013 down in Somerville, MA. This is the first 5k I have run in 12 years. My coach had asked me to run a 5k to set a…
IMLP 2013
This month marked the real start of my training for Ironman Lake Placid. December was kind of a base building slash see where we are at period. This time around I have hired a coach, Dave Sek, from Breakthrough Performance Coaching. I felt like a learned a lot from Fernando Braz during my training for…
Race Report – Baystate Marathon
Well, my first marathon is over and here is how it went down. I ran with my friend Heidi and we got there plenty early for the start. Stretched a little, waited in the bathroom lines (Heidi had to go twice!!!) and finally seeded ourselves for the start of the race with about 5 minutes…
Baystate Marathon Strategy
All of the workouts are finally over! This morning was the last track workout before the marathon this coming Sunday. Tomorrow is a short and easy 5 mile run, Friday is a day off and Saturday is another short easy 25-30 minute jog. This all leading up to my first marathon that is not part…
Race Report – Call To Honor
This race report is a little bit late, but hey, better late than never! I have been doing this race for four years now. Each year I have managed to get a little bit faster. This was the first year though that I didn’t move up in the standings though. My times have gone from…
Boston Light Swim
On August 18, 2012 at 7:00 am I jumped into the water to start what would be an 8 miles, 7 islands, 1 swim journey. Last fall Mike K. came up with the idea of some of the Stiles pond Scummers doing the Boston Light Swim as a relay. I thought it sounded like a…
Yankee Homecoming 10 miler – Race Report
I’ve only done the Newburyport Yankee Homecoming race a couple of times before this and have watched a few other years. Every year it seems that the weather is hot and humid for this race. Usually one of the hottest nights of the summer. This year though, the forecast was for 75 and a cloudy…