Category Archives: General
Death of a Blog
How fitting that this weekend, Easter weekend of all things, I spent the last two nights rebuilding this blog from scratch. Found out Thursday that something happened to the WordPress installation on the 2mhost.com hosting site. After entering some frantic … Continue reading
runDisney Changes Wine & Dine – For Better or Worse?
Life goes on, things change, out with the old and in with the new… even with runDisney. In the last year, we’ve seen a new Paris Disneyland race weekend, Star Wars events on both coasts (half marathon and challenges), the … Continue reading
Back in the Training Groove
The year so far has been a weird one in terms of weather – a record 30″ of snow (IN ONE DAY!), followed a few weeks later by a massive rain event… temperatures all over the place… last week, the … Continue reading
The Running Groove
Looking at my mileage totals for this past week, I surprised myself with a solid 15. Add the 5 I did today in the beautiful mid-50’s weather (February in northeastern US), and I’m off to a great start. I’ve settled … Continue reading
Garmin Addition Part 2
While using the Vivoactive for a couple of light workouts, one thing that’s continuing to drive me nuts is being able to automatically sync workouts to MapMyRun. So far, I’ve had to export the workout data in TCX format from … Continue reading
IronStrength Full Workout
Earlier today, I tackled the full IronStrength workout. Up until this point, I did portions of the workout in the hopes of gradually easing into it. Well, I’m here to say, there’s no “easing” into this thing. It’s a full-blown, … Continue reading
Garmin VivoActive joins the club!
Since I starting this crazy running hobby back in 2013, I’ve been a faithful MapMyRun MVP user. It’s a nice little app that works on my iPhone, has GPS capabilities, and a bunch of other nice tracking features. However, with … Continue reading
Record Snowfall – Blizzard of 2016
It’s not even two weeks out since Disney, and I was hoping to get back into a solid training routine… which seemed to be going well until yesterday. Counting today’s stroll outside to try and shovel open the driveway, and … Continue reading
Now it’s time to say goodbye… again!
Leaving WDW is always a sad time… great place to have fun, and you always find/learn something new. As I sit here at the airport in Charlotte, NC waiting for my flight, I’m thinking back on another amazing weekend. Oh, … Continue reading
Round 2 – MARATHON #3 COMPLETED!
Mark it down – Marathon #3 COMPLETE! Goofy Challenge #2 COMPLETE! 39.3 miles later, and the race challenge is in the books. Overall, I was about a minute faster on this muggy and very humid morning. I purposely took my … Continue reading