Results are In - Mission Accomplished

I did it. 5+ Hours of running and I must say, I am glad to have this one in the record books.

The Marine Corps Marathon has put together a nice finisher page if you would like
to take a more detailed look.

I must say this was a very inspirational event. I am sure I will be posting about it for days to come.

If I could come up with one conclusion about this marathon is "Do Something."

Marathon runners have a strong history of supporting charities and helping those in need. The Marine Corps Marathon is extra special. Many of the runners where wearing pictures of fallen military heroes on the backs of their t-shirts. This was very touching to see, especially when I recognized the person running was probably not your typical marathon runner type. This brought tears to my eyes knowing these people where carrying the torch for a fallen hero.

If you would like to make a donation to the Yellow Ribbon/April 9th Scholarship Fund in honor of my marathon click here for more information.

So back to the inspiration.

"Do Something"

Raise some money for your favorite charity, the injured troops, fallen heroes or whatever inspires you. I promise you its worth it.

I Made The Cut!

For those of you who are not familiar with the blogging world and I must admit, I am a bit of a newby myself, may not have heard of Blogrush.

You may have noticed the Blogrush link to the blososphere to the right. I subscribed to this blog linking service in an effort to attract more traffic to my blog. We all just want an audience, you understand....right?

I soon found out everybody who has a blog signed up for this free service. I also found out many undesirable blogs, sometimes referred as Spamblogs, signed up as well.

Well, I just was informed they purged over 10,000 blogs from their service. Running Revelations was not one of them.

A small victory for a new blog writer.

I made the cut, I may have been the last picked but I did make the cut.

Oh, by the way. I am heading off for DC tomorrow enroute to the Marine Corps Marathon.

Wish me Luck!

Marine Corps 26.2 = (<2 Weeks) + 10 Years

Over 10 years ago I set out to run the Marine Corps Marathon. In two weeks I hope to have it filed away in the record books. Although, I have run 6 marathons during this period. The Marine Corps Marathon was the inspiration.

In 1996 I was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corp and I promptly gained around fifty pounds. I remembered one of my sergeants ran the Marine Corps Marathon and thought it might be a good way to shed my new "civilian body armor."

After committing to the training, my sister announced her wedding date which fell on the same weekend as the Marine Corps Marathon. Luckily I was able to sign up for the New York Marathon, a very suitable replacement for the Marine Corps Marathon. That led to 6 marathons over the next 4 years.

My life found some wonderful distractions in a wife and a personal coaching business.

After a 6 year layoff and a return of the "civilian body armor" I found inspiration in an original goal of running the Marine Corps Marathon. While surfing the net on Mothers Day this year I decided to look up the Marine Corps Marathon.

I told my wife that I had been considering a marathon this year. I figured the Marine Corps Marathon would already be closed out (I had hoped in my heart). It wasn't closed out and she said "just go ahead and sign up, if you don't end up running it oh well."

I took her advice and signed up. My training is nearly complete. Two weeks to go to achieve my decade old goal.

Thanks Honey,

Ooh rah! Marine Corps!

Bite Size Chunks

Over the weekend during my 18 mile run, I had a revelation about my life.

I need to break my goals down to bite size chunks.

Ultimately, my goal is to run and finish the Marine Corps Marathon on October 28th. Naturally, I had broken it down into a training schedule. This schedule is essentially my blueprint for completion of the marathon.

However, I did not consider that I could breakdown it even further. During my 18 miler over the weekend I was feeling a little overwhelmed. My feet and knees were hurting to start and I questioned my stamina after a two weeks of limited training.

So, during my run I started to break things down into 5 mile sections and then mile sections. While doing this I thought to myself. What if I did this in other areas of my life?

Next time your goals have you feeling overwhelmed try breaking them down into bite size chunks.

Running Hurts!

I ran 18 miles on Saturday and it hurt. I ran 3.2 miles today and it hurt.

I forgot about my mantra I used when I trained for my first marathon.


Running Hurts!

The Zone

You may have noticed my blog posts have come to a stand still. That just means my feet have come to a stand still.

Like my tag line says when my feet are shuffling my mind is spinning. I was actually getting a little frustrated over the last few weeks. My work schedule had me buried and my feet, knees and muscles were rebelling as I pounded out 18 miles 2 weeks ago.

So, I took a little break from running and writing. After two weeks off and a few recommendations from the doctors I knocked out 18 miles on Saturday. It actually was amazing. With a little rest my feet, knees and muscles actually responded and I knocked 30 minutes off my time compared to my last 18 miler.

And...my ideas also came back. So what do you do to get in the zone? Obviously I like to run.