It’s a Saturday morning in May. I’ve got my iPod on, a new cute running top, bright white sneakers and some shades. I burst out the front door of my house on a mission: I’M GOING TO RUN. I’m tired of looking on wistfully at all the local runners with their nicely toned legs as they stride down by the lake like gazelles, sweat running down their backs. I’m headed down to the neighborhood park and I’m going to make myself a runner if it kills me. I tear down the street at top speed with a carefully selected Run Playlist . . . → Read More: Chapter One
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What do you do when you are down in the dumps? Some people curl up on the couch with a pint of cookie dough ice cream. Others plow through hours of Law & Order reruns on the dvr. (Who, me?) And let’s face it, sometimes you just need a really good cry. I’m an advocate of all three of these options but when I’m done with the above I find that the best therapy of all is to simply get moving again any way you can. It’s amazing what a good sweat session can do for the mind . . . → Read More: Running Therapy Taking a cue from Anne’s running funk post, I wanted to illustrate a way in which working out and/or running doesn’t have to be a chore but in fact can sometimes be just the opposite. This past weekend we participated in a scavenger hunt called “Adventure in the City” that in a way “tricked” us into running nearly eight miles while we were- get this- having tons of fun. Now you may remember a little event that we helped put on earlier this summer called “The Great Milwaukee Race?” Well, Anne and I were so excited to be able to . . . → Read More: Fighting the Funk: Adventure in the City I’m in a running funk. I don’t want to run, not even a few miles. I don’t even want to think about running. When I do run, I just think about how miserable it is and how long I’ve been gone and how long til I’m home and what torture it feels like. I dwell on how awful I am at running and how I could be using this time to do something else and how I’ll never get faster so why try? I’m sick of all my routes and tired of doing the same thing all the time. Depressing, right? Stinky . . . → Read More: Running Funk: When you don’t want to run As you may have heard, registration is now open for the InStep Icebreaker Indoor Marathon Relay race on January 22, 2011. Last year, FitMilwaukee had two teams participating and this year we want to blow it out of the frozen water. Relay teams consist of 2 to 4 runners. The field is limited to 100 teams. Runners will be chip-timed. Relay legs can be any length and we will be using a “tag team format” where you can switch runners as often as you would like. Teams must complete 95.4 laps, which is equivalent . . . → Read More: Join the FitMilwaukee Indoor Marathon Relay Team This race takes place at the Pettit National Ice Center, and has received acclaim from Running Times and has achieved the Boston Marathon standard for qualifying! Last January, a team of Fit Milwaukee runners joined up to take part in the relay event of the premier indoor marathon in the country! Check out this video by Jim Raffel: Now’s your chance to join up this year! Registration for the 3rd annual InStep Icebreaker Indoor Marathon & Half Marathon is open! on Active.com. The events will be held on January 22-23, 2011, at the Pettit National Ice Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Icebreaker . . . → Read More: Registration is open: 2011 Instep Icebreaker Indoor Marathon *Photo by Josh Janssen Whenever I’m out running with friends, it always seems that running questions come up. There is usually some discussion about the “correct” answer to these questions, but it invariably causes me to do a little research when I get back. The more questions that get asked, the more research I find myself doing. And you know what? I’ve found that I kind of enjoy it. So, consider me a “virtual running buddy.” Send me your questions and I’ll do my best to answer them (and provide resources for more information). I am not a trainer. I am not . . . → Read More: New Thursday Feature: Virtual Running Buddy Fit Milwaukee welcomes Sherry Wilde and she shares her first triathlon experience. You can find her on Twitter as @sherrywilde. If you would have asked me four years ago to go for a run, I would have chuckled, grabbed my book, and taken a seat while you went for your run. I was not a runner, or much of anything that involved exercise. I might throw in a work out DVD once in a while or go for a walk around the neighborhood on a nice day. But given the choice, I would prefer to do anything but exercise. Then my husband and I . . . → Read More: My Journey from Couch Potato to Triathlete I like to sport knee high black socks with a pair of shorts and a tshirt. Is it a fashion statement? Nope — it’s a tool for recovery: Compression socks. You can see me sporting them on the far left in the image below. These socks are super-tight (read: hard to put on!) and put even pressure along your lower legs, which improves blood circulation. This provide more oxygen, and flushes out lactic acid quicker. The idea is not new; compression has been used in clinical recovery situations and for treatment of edema, lymph edema, phlebitis, varicose veins, spider veins and deep vein . . . → Read More: Compression socks: more than a fashion statement Last weekend, I completed my first half marathon. I wasn’t first, and I wasn’t last. My time was, well, twice that of some of my friends, but in the end it didn’t matter. I checked the ol’ half marathon off my bucket list. I also learned some valuable lessons throughout training and the race itself. Oh, and I got a kick-arse medal. Let’s not forget about the medal.
Before the race:
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