First night

This week was the first real nice week weather wise in Boston, and that means running outside! I am very excited to start the spring/summer running has started. This is personally my favorite time to run during the year because I can run in shorts and a t-shirt, and a lot of the college students have left for the summer which in turn makes more sidewalk space for me to run. This Sunday I will be running in the Boston Run to Remember half marathon.

Rusty Runner

Running my life

Everyday I talk with my friend Dan at work (he is a non runner, but a great friend), and everyday he asks me "what are you doing tonight", and I say how many miles I have to do that particular night. He said something that puzzled me "why does running run your life?" I have been on a couple of runs since that statement. Is it bad that running runs my life? You think the obvious answer to this question would be no, but it has made me think about some things. My wife Kimberly has said things along the same lines to me a couple of times. I love running it is my time to spend with myself think sometimes talk to myself (not in a crazy way), and I have a lot of energy that I need to expel or no one will want to be around me, but I am a very hyper focused human being, so once this object is in my head that is all I can think of. Don't think for a moment that I am going to quit running or anything like that. I just wanted to look at another persons point of view, or as I would like to say run in another person's shoes.

Rusty Runner

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Hello runners and fans,
First of all happy belated mothers day to all the running mom out there. I hope you were able to get a run in for yourself or even better with your kids. The Rustyrunner has been running and getting ready for the Boston Run to Remember. I have been running along Boston's famed Esplanade and the Boston marathon course. Keep on running!!

The Rusty Runner

Western New York and losing the lottery

Hello everyone spring is upon us which means more running which means more posts. I do not know about you, but that is some wonderful math there. This week I was in Olean NY which is about a hour and half drive from Buffalo. The temperature was perfect for running, but due to some bad weather I was forced to do most of my runs this week inside. The only day I did get to run outside was awesome! I was able to do a 5 mils of back roads running surrounded by the hills of western New York which are now starting to sprout into a wonderful shade of green. Also on April 27 2011 was the day to find out if you were choosen for for the New York City marathon. I was not picked this year which was kind of sad, but there is always next year. Have a great weekend and a great run.

The Rusty Runner

Hoppy Easter

Happy Easter everyone! I hope everyone had a great day spending time with friends and family, or got in a nice run. Tomorrow I start my training for the Boston Run to Remember which is a half maraton in Boston. I will let you know how training is going when I get a chance. Not only does training start tomorrow I am in a new town called Olean NY which is about a hour and half outside of Buffalo. This should be very interesting.

Rusty Runner

Barefoot running

On April 16th 2011 there was the barefoot seminar at the Boston public library downstairs in the auditorum. For you who are runners and have not read Born to Run by Christopher McDougall your only cheating yourself. The seminar was about 2 hours the had the author, guest speakers, and characters from the book. This seminar was not about persuading people to run barefoot nor was the seminar about what you should eat and not eat. It was about the passion for running in a different way then what you were taught. The first speaker was Dr. Lieberman who is the barefoot running professor at Harvard University, and she he did is talk barfoot. Dr. Lieberman had some really great information, so much that I will not even be able to scratch the surface of the information that he presented. If you get a chance please google him and read his work. The next speaker I wanted to touch on was Scott Jurek he is one of the runners in Born to Run, and also holds the United States record for 24 hour distance on all surfaces (165.7) which comes out to be around 7 miles an hour. After the seminar there was a meet and greet with Scott and Chris, and it was awesome. Chris is a great writer and one of the nicest people I have ever met. It is awesome to see someone get to do something that they are passonate about. Meet Scott was an awesome experience he is one of the people that I admire most in running right now. He runs unbelieveable distances and has won some of the hardest races out there, but yet he is very humbled by his fans, and loves to talk to anyone about running. He is my inspiration to take my running to the next level in distance running. Please go out and read Born to Run. Maybe that will be my first book review on this blog.

Kara Goucher at Niketown

On April 16th 2011 Kara Goucher did a meet and greet and question answer period to promote her new book. Before the event I was very pumped to have a chance to meet one of the best female distance runner at this time. When we were allowed to enter into Niketown it was every person for themselves to get a seat to be able to see and hear Kara speak. When Kara entered the room there was a loud rumble of the crowd. Kara showed up in a pair of Nike sneakers, jeans, Nike t-shirt, and white hoody and looked very comfortable to be around her fans. To answer one question that is on a lot of the guys minds. Yes she is just as attractive in person as she is in runners world. I was very disappointed in the host of the interview some "special" person for Nike New York. I really thought the questions that were asked were softball questions. One question was are you nervous. What the hell kind of question is that? I think a lot of fans wanted to know about training with a new child, what kind of training did you do? After the 6-10 answer question period then it was time for Kara to meet her fans and sign some autographs of books, magazines, or anything you wanted signed. You would think that Nike would have this part down to a science, but that was a wrong assumption. Fans were cutting each other in line, trying to get pictures with Kara, and trying to get more then 1 item signed. I was very pleased to get my latest issue of Runners World signed. Overall I enjoyed myself, but expected more from Nike on organization and the interviewer.