I really don’t like recovering from a hard race. I’ve finally started to see the benefits and necessity of taking a week to recover after all out exertion, but i still don’t like it. I’ve talked with a few other runners about this and we must all be crazy because it’s harder to take a [...]

          A few weeks ago, while everyone back home was dealing with Hurricane Isaac, I was on a business trip in Baltimore. One of the things I did before I left was to check to see if the hotel we were staying at had a gym. I’m not going to let [...]

Now that the Crescent City Classic has come, and gone, it is officially the off season for running in Louisiana. A time for everyone to get real used to sweating buckets on every run and cursing our proximity to the equator. With this also comes a time to take a break from trying to get [...]

Ladies and gentlemen of Louisiana, and those beyond our borders, this is a call to arms. I could be witty and say its a call to legs but this is not a topic of humor. In fact, the situation is grim and the consequences are dire. Obesity in Louisiana, as well as the country, is [...]

So as of this week, I’m officially injured. I’m 99% sure its a stress fracture right above my right ankle. This  isn’t going to be about what it takes physically to come back from an injury. This post is going to be something more important, and harder to overcome. That’s how to mentally get through [...]

If you’re a runner, you’ve no doubt run races. Some races like to attract runners with sayings like “fast and flat course” and then you run it, and its not flat. That was the 2012 Mardi Gras Mambo 10k. Don’t get me wrong it was a great race. Its just that the term flat is [...]

Jesse Owens said “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that’s where it’s at.”This is how I see speed work. Its a battle every time. I dread it, and no matter how low my times get, I still [...]

  So you’ve working hard with your new life style change and have been seeing results. Things are going well. You’re determined, motivated, and not looking back. Then Super Bowl Sunday hits, or Mardi Gras, or Valentine’s Day, or any number of days that will totally wreck the new you. The first thing to remember [...]

As I was packing up my apartment I came across a lot of books about running that I’ve acquired over the years. And by “came across”, I really mean that I kicked a stack of them and in the ensuing moments of screaming at inanimate objects I had an Idea. I would review a running [...]

I ran the inaugural Rouge-Orleans and frequently run on the levee as part of my work out schedule. The scenery is awesome and the solitude can bring you levels of peace and contemplation that you might not find elsewhere…

This is the first in a series of articles I’m going to call Clydesdale Corner. It is going to deal with issues that bigger runners face. These have to do with, gear, weight loss, lifestyle changes, and answers to any questions I may get. As most of ya’ll know, I used to weigh 354 pounds. [...]