Ragnar Del Sol – Race Report

There are race reports and then there are race reports. They say that a picture paints a thousand words – and that may very well be the way to go on this one. How exactly do you capture what transpires over a race covering 200 miles through the Arizona Desert over 25 hours and 47 [...]

Whole New Dad Training Program – Week 8

While I am out racing through the desert in Arizona this weekend in the Ragnar Del Sol Ultra-Marathon - enjoy the eigth weekly contribution to the Whole New Dad Couch to 5K Series featured at www.manofthehouse.com The next installment of the series will be posted each Wednesday throughout the program: Welcome to week eight of our Whole New Dad [...]

It’s Race Week! (Again)

Much has been said and written about the end of the marathon. It is described as exhilarating, life-affirming and thrilling. It can be humbling, emotionally draining and crushing. Runners talk a lot about what it feels like after they finish the race. How it was worth all the blood, sweat and tears to fight to [...]

2011 Austin Marathon Race Report

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it [...]

Austin Marathon Finished

Just a moment ago we crossed over the finish line of the Austin Marathon. Our time was 3:15:01 A new PR by a little more than 2 1/2 minutes. 127th place overall. A full race report will follow tomorrow – I just wanted to thank everyone for all of the great support and motivation to [...]

Austin Marathon – Final Pre-Race Thoughts

We’re inside 24 hours from the start of the 20th running of the Austin Marathon. The weather forecast for Sunday is not a favorable one for the runners. 63 degrees at the start of the race, increasing up to 75 by Noon. Humidity at 96% at 7:00 a.m. when the starter’s gun fires and winds [...]

Dreams of Boston ….

The running world was quite abuzz on Wednesday as a press release from the Boston Athletic Association informed Boston Marathon hopefuls of the changes they would be making to the qualification and registration process over the next two years. In case you missed it there was a huge backlash this year when registration for the 115th [...]

Austin Distance Challenge – Runner Tracking for Sunday

Sunday’s Austin Marathon has been long circled on this runner’s calendar.  I registered for this race back in August just after I got off the phone with my friend Jason Richey who told me that Dom had lost his battle with Cancer. Now six months later and the race is almost here.  Training is complete.  [...]

Whole New Dad Training Program – Week 7

Below is the seventh weekly contribution to the Whole New Dad Couch to 5K Series featured at www.manofthehouse.com The next installment of the series will be posted each Wednesday throughout the program: Welcome to week seven of our Whole New Dad program. To this point I’m betting that you were feeling pretty good about everything [...]

It’s Race Week! Austin Marathon 2011

Idle time. That is what it feels like with the Austin Marathon now just about 5 days away.  Normally my other titles, Husband, Dad, VP and all the rest make the other one, “marathoner” a bit more challenging. It means early morning alarm clocks waking up long before dawn to get in training miles and [...]