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Morning Inspirational Running Video

Today The Runner's Journey is battling to not put off this very important training run. It is 10 miles!! I found this very inspirational video check it out.

GET OUT AND RUN

it is worth the watch.

Happy Running!

The Runner's Journey:Mid-Week Sixer/video

Feeling the Burn 

You start out a run in the mind. You think about it all day imagining what you are going to do, how fast you are going to run and how awesome it is all going to be. Then comes the moment of the run and you take your first stride, the music starts and the run is on! When the second stride hits the ground you realize "this isn't going to be a piece of cake". That is how the mid-week run turned out to be. 

There was no mind, body spirit connection. In my mind I felt like the scarecrow on The Wizard of Oz legs flaying about , arms swinging goofily and the mind checked out till next Sunday. That Sunday holds the grand daddy of this Half Marathon Training Schedule a 10 miler. 

I took some video of this weeks six miler so you could come along with me. You can view it here on youtube. Just click and watch . Six Mile Run Video. Don't forget to click the video! It is amateurish but was fun to make .

Happy Running!

The Drinker vs The Runner Pt 3

The Drinker vs The Runner

      It went like that for a few years with The Drinker taking the lead and winning and then The Runner would do the same. It was not an easy thing to go through. I was unfamiliar with change and also how change went down. I was experiencing it first hand and I was resisting it. It was in April of 2010 that it all came to a critical mass. I had joined a team of much younger runners to participate in The Ragnar RelayRace SoCal. This was unlike any race I have ever been in. It was 12 people , two vans and 200 miles. It was named after Ragnar of Norse history. In those days drinking was part of that race and we did. It was a drinking and running weekend. I ran hung over after partying the night before the race . We drank during the race and after the race. I was completely wiped out after that race. 

The team was Hairforce.You can see our video here:

Hairforce 2010 

It was a fun time and it was the turning point in The Runner's Revolution that was going on inside. The Drinker was on the ropes. Later that year on August 3 The Runner landed the knockout punch to The Drinker. To celebrate, The Runner ran the following Races:

• The Carlsbad Half Marathon
• The San Diego Half Marathon
• another Ragnar race (this time sober)
• The La Jolla Half Marathon
• America's Finest Half Marathon

It culminated at The Carlsbad Full Marathon where on the finish line I was to preside over my son's marriage. They both ran the half marathon together. It was an amazing event.one I will never forget. Guess what? Running made all that happen and more.

Today I am just The Runner.

read the other two installments of this article here

The Drinker vs The Runner Part2
The Runner vs The Drinker Part1

Happy Running!

Another Running Hero !

Running Hero  is exactly what this guy is.  He gives me hope that I can be this when I am his age.  This gave me the inspiration to get out and run these scheduled 6 miles.