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January 2009

Next Marathon - Sarasota or B&A Trail?

Posted by Steve Carton Jan 13, 2009

Well, I'm puzzling over what I'm running next. I'm signed up for the B&A trail marathon on March 1.

I have an off-chance of being in Sarasota FL for business on 2/16. If that works out, then I'm going to try and fly there Saturday and run the Sarasota Dolphin marathon on Sunday 2/15. If that happens, then I'll run the B&A trail as a half. I don't actually have to decide about the half or full until I get to the half-way point. That's a cool thing about the B&A. And then I may run the National marathon as a full towards the end of March.

OTOH, if the FL thing doesn't work out, I'll run the B&A as a full and maybe run the National as a half. Decisions, decisions.

I had a very good LSD Sunday -- 19 miles at near race pace. So I feel I'm ready for any of these options.

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New Year's Resolutions

Posted by Steve Carton Jan 6, 2009

Here are my resolutions for 2009.

Stay Injury Free.

Run 4 or more Marathons, and hopefully in some new places. I ran 4 in 08. I'm currently considering the Sarasota Marathon in February, B&A Trail in March, perhaps Flying Pig in May (or maybe Frederick again), Harrisburg or Philly or Steamtown or Rehoboth (again) in the fall. So lots of possibles that are all local. I'm signed up for the B&A, but that's it so far.

Lose another 20 pounds. I'd like to get to 190 and stay there.

Be nicer to others, especially those less well off than I am. And perhaps that should be first or second.

Happy New Year!

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And Yet More on SportShield

Posted by Steve Carton Jan 6, 2009

Happy New Year Everyone. I thought I would start off on the wrong foot - by whining!

I've been carrying the rollon version of SportShield (which I wrote about previously) in my running gym-bag but the bottle got knocked sideways; I don't know when. When I opened the bag to get my watch and other running kit out the other day, everything was coated in SportShield. Not only was it a pain to clean up, it was a total waste of the product.

It works well (though I can't say if it is any better than BodyGlide), but if they can't find a way to seal the bottle more effectively, I won't buy it again.