No crowds. No timing chip. No medal. And no name, either. When I used to think about training for an ultra, I always wondered: What happens when you run the marathon distance in training? Are you then entitled to add another notch to your marathon count? Having done it for the first time yesterday with […]
As most of you know, two weeks ago I ran my first 50-mile race. Recovery took a little longer than planned when I got sick for almost a week afterward. I hadn’t been sick in years, but given the exertion (and the heat) of that day, I guess it’s not all that surprising that my […]
When you’re a new vegetarian or trying to go plant-based, it’s easy to make mistakes. Chances are, you’ve already messed up by eating something you thought was safe, only to realize later that it contained, say, chicken broth. Or in my case—yum—stomach enzymes and fish bladders. If so, shake it off; Consider it a lesson […]
Call it post-race blues if you like. It happened after qualifying for Boston, and now it’s happening after running my first 50-mile ultramarathon. The story is the same: A planned week off of running turns into two (or three) weeks. And then I get into watching television shows, like the important Bachelorette. This all opens […]
A day and a half into my experiment with an all-liquid, water and green-vegetable juice cleanse, I’ve already learned something huge. It has nothing to do with alkalinity or raw food or how all I want to do right now is eat something (solid, for the love of god). It’s just this: Real food is […]
I caved. And I didn’t just go down, I went down in flames. Just a few hours after I wrote about how hard, emotionally, it was to abstain from eating solid food, it all became too hard. As I went to warm up yet another bowl of pureed green vegetable soup, my wife and sister […]
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