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One week to go and the waiting game is in full swing. The last two weeks before a marathon can be very looonnngggg. Less running, more energy, less sleep, more thinking. I used to dread the last couple of weeks before a marathon but I am learning to embrace them more and more, realizing that these two weeks are the most important of my entire buildup. Rest is the secret. I'm not afraid to share that because I want to see every guy at the Olympic Marathon Trials breakthrough and if I can help play any part in that than I will. I constantly remin...
I could write a whole book on the lessons I have learned from marathon training. I feel like every time I build up for a marathon I get a whole life's worth of wisdom from just three grueling months of training. These past couple of weeks has been filled with ups and downs. One day I will be doing a 13-mile tempo run feeling strong and filled with energy. The very next day I will be doing close to two hours of running (split between two runs) and feel like I couldn't take on a recreational jogger. Deena has routinely been dropping me on my eas...
This past Tuesday I returned to Mammoth Lakes to put in my last hard month of altitude training after spending a week in Eugene to watch Sara compete in the Olympic Track and Field Trials. Watching the trials was one of the most emotional week-long experiences of my life. Watching some of my teammates and friends qualify for the Olympics kept me up late at night as a result of my excitement for them. However, my heart broke with my wife and some of my other teammates who failed to qualify. I could feel their pain as my own. I know all too well...
Besides logging hundreds of miles of running over the past two weeks I have been watching previous Olympic Marathons while I stretch or while doing core work. What I have noticed is that the favorite rarely seems to win. I was reflecting on why this is the case. It kind of blows my mind that someone with a PR some two minutes or more slower than another athlete can win on the most important day of both athletes careers. While I am sure there is not just one explanation for why the "impossible" happens in Olympic marathons I am beginning to unde...
As has become my custom before all my best races, my travel to London was crazy. Before breaking an hour at the Houston Half Marathon it was a monster snowstorm that left us in a ditch and literally snowed in, before London last year it was nearly missing my flight as I realized that the train from San Diego would not drop me off at LAX like I had thought (although my tardiness did result in me getting the last available seat on the plane...in first class), before the Olympic Trials it was the fires and smoke that made for a juggle in travel a...
