PEI MARATHON
As I crossed the finish line in 2021, my third marathon. I was overwhelmed with a huge wave of emotions. Firstly, I am not going to lie, I was disappointed in my posted time. Then mere seconds later immense sense of, “Holy SH$# !! Neil, you did it! washed over me. I was so freakin happy and proud of myself. Here I was at fifty-nine years of age and I had just run 42.2 km! (Okay, there was some walking 🙂 But, “SH$% Neil, you just did your third marathon!”
Training is getting a little harder
I am still training for the PEI Marathon scheduled for this October (2021) and my training is getting a harder! Everywhere I have been on training days the smoke from the numerous wildfires in British Columbia have followed me! Making it difficult to train. The joys of being slightly asthmatic. Then my fathers health took […]
MEAL PREP
No More Empty Calorie Lunches I’ve entered to run the PEI Marathon in October of this year. The training starts now. In my mind, there are a whole bunch of interrelated tasks that are important to successfully complete a marathon and completing the marathon healthy. But, there are two primary tasks that stand out from […]
This or Something Better
On February 1st, 2020 I applied to run in the New York Marathon. 2020 was their 50th anniversary. Truth be told, it took me a while to decided to run the New York Marathon. As I had to get over a whole bunch of internal financial objections that were continuously running through my mind. As […]