In case you were wondering, I haven’t run since the marathon.\u00a0 I don’t plan on running again for awhile.\u00a0 The problem with an early fall marathon is that you miss out on a lot of great running weather.\u00a0 Especially when you have a nagging injury for almost 9 months.\u00a0 I have biked to work 2 x’s since the marathon though and gone to stretch out and use the foam roller at the gym once.\u00a0 This training cycle really burned me out.\u00a0 I am excited for many of my friends who set great PR’s and BQed.\u00a0 Congratulations!!!<\/p>\n
Below are some old highlights from past years for the past few weeks.\u00a0 The last highlight reel was Sept 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n I obviously talked about the marathon last year!\u00a0 I wrote about a 2 minute video<\/a> preview of the course. This year was a pictorial preview<\/a>. Here is last year’s race plan<\/a> and then my grading of it<\/a>.\u00a0 That was followed by a more thorough race review<\/a> and chart-filled post<\/a>. As part of last year’s race I raised money for Team World Vision.\u00a0 In this time span I wrote about my first impressions in Ghana <\/a>and a brief reflection on my time in South Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n Foto Friday’s for this time period included a beautiful lake scene<\/a>, my trip odometer hitting 26.2<\/a> miles and my 2008 TCM race shwag<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2007 I wrote about the importance of adding accelerations<\/a> into your training. I was also the featured blog<\/a> of the week on Phedippidations. A friend chimed in with a guest review about the Lewis & Clark Marathon<\/a>, not the flooded out one though.\u00a0 While he was running 26.2 I had a great 4 mile race to fight Ovarian Cancer<\/a>.\u00a0 Hands down, one of my all time favorite<\/strong> posts is about t-shirt ettiqute<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Remember the dreadful day in October 2007 when it was in the 90’s for Chicago and TCM marathons?\u00a0 I was a volunteer at Chicago<\/a> and got cussed at because our water stop (mile 2) was out of water.\u00a0 Not a fun day for anyone. Here are some pictures<\/a>.\u00a0 I found a great list of last minute marathon tips<\/a>.\u00a0 I started a series where I wrote about the blogs I read.\u00a0 The first stop was one about race directing<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thanks for hanging out.\u00a0 I did find my camera cord, so I’ll eventually get some pictures up here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In case you were wondering, I haven’t run since the marathon.\u00a0 I don’t plan on running again for awhile.\u00a0 The problem with an early fall marathon is that you miss out on a lot of great running weather.\u00a0 Especially when you have a nagging injury for almost 9 months.\u00a0 I have biked to work 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlights","category-my-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-qR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2007\/november-highlights\/","url_meta":{"origin":1665,"position":0},"title":"November Highlights","author":"crossn81","date":"December 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I still can't believe its December already! 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Well it was a major highlight of the year and I spent plenty of weeks training, thinking, and focusing on it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Highlights"","block_context":{"text":"Highlights","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/highlights\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":598,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/twin-cities-marathon-course-preview\/","url_meta":{"origin":1665,"position":2},"title":"Twin Cities Marathon Course Preview","author":"crossn81","date":"September 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5oRp9mZsqlo The entire course in 2.62 minutes. Here is how the producer described the video at YouTube: Here is a preview of the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon course. Music by Blue Man Group - Drumbone. 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