New Blogging Beginnings…

You’ve probably noticed my site had a little face lift over the weekend. I have decided to split up my blog into two distinct spaces. Leaving a Path, where you are now, is where I’ll be talking about my training, my life, and the things that make me laugh, the things that motivate and inspire me as…

Breaking News: Clock Blocked by Urban Dictionary

This just in… (well actually, it happened yesterday morning but I’ve had zero time to talk about it, and frankly my head is still spinning).  In an ironic twist of epic proportions, Clock blocking was DENIED access into the elite status of an urban dictionary term yesterday. As many of my my readers and Mud…

The Anatomy of the Shorty Shorts: Size Matters

You show up on race day, ready to run. You’ve logged hours of training, gotten yourself out of bed at 5:30 to get your long runs in before work, you’ve said no to donuts even as they have called out to you from the conference room and instead nibbled dejectedly on your small bag of…

Clock Blocking…Continued

My innocent little blog post on clock blocking has resulted in several philosophical conversations around the prevalence and necessity of clock blocking in other scenarios.  Additionally, it prompted the creation of a web page and a FB site.  When I say it sparked philosophical conversations, I mean simply that I was nearly crucified by some…

Clock Blocking

There is a silent pace killer out there.  It’s real and it’s plaguing races of all distances and disciplines across the globe systematically adding precious seconds to would-be PR’s around the world.  Until recently, this epidemic had no name… it just was this thing no one wanted to talk about but no one could continue to…