I am VERY self conscious about running outdoors, In fact I am extremely embarrassed to be outside or around people at all. Running I might as well be waving my arms around screaming look at me. I have done 90% of my running on the treadmill. Over the… more »

All of my bitching and complaining about nothing being close to me well finally a race in my own backyard ! The First ever Higgins Lake Sunrise Run (Half Marathon, 10k, 5k 1 Mile fun run) I am so excited, it's in a beautiful area right next to one of the… more »

I decided on a half marathon and it's 5 weeks away! I know I can run that distance the question is what time can I do it in? Ideally I want to finish in 2 hours or less, with 5 weeks to train I am not so sure that's possible. I used the runners world sma… more »

One week of not smoking and back to running complete, I ran 13.1 miles total this week. A long way for the 35+ miles a week I was averaging but not bad considering. I had a total of 5 runs and I dreaded every one of them. I miss the days when running was… more »

As some of you may know I am an ex-smoker. I had not smoked since august, recently I had a little break with reality and smoked for a week. During that week I tried running but two miles was the most I could manage. On wednsday I decided to quit (again)… more »