Our first stop after emptying our house prior to settlement and moving into our RV full-time was the 2017 Philadelphia Folk Festival near Schwenksville, PA, which gave me another opportunity to run the upper sections of the Perkiomen Trail in Montgomery County (southeastern Pennsylvania). Farm field camping at the 2017 Philadelphia Folk Festival I have …
Category: Training
non-race running
Breaking the Blog Jam
Time to get back to my blog. It's been far too long since I last posted, and a lot has transpired since so this will be a catch-up post. I'll try to be brief. October, 2015 — Appalachian Series Report Here is my flickr album from the series: https://www.flickr.com/gp/dolton/45y15B. This was my second complete Mainly Marathons …
Appalachia Bound
Heading south! Today I finished my last long training run, and, except for a few short maintenance runs and some last minute travel preparations, we are almost ready to pile into the RV and head for the first two races in Bluefield, WV and VA (it straddles the border). I will be doing all 7 …
Sweet Relief!
Today was a huge relief for me -- finally, a successful training run after more than a month of injury! Most runners have to contend with a nagging injury from time to time, and sometimes an injury flat out shuts you down. I missed most of my training in August due to a badly inflamed SI joint. …
Catching Up — Ready for Dust Bowl Series
It certainly has been awhile since I last posted (other than my better-late-than-never year-end/new-year review). My winter long break from blogging was not intentional. But I didn't stop running. In spite of pretty challenging winter weather for training, I have been putting in a lot of miles to prepare for my up-coming 5-day, 5-state, 5-marathon …
Starting Late 