Saturday morning I participated in the 9th annual Chattahoochee Challenge 10K. I've heard about this race for a while, as people talk about it as one of the best races to qualify for the Peachtree Road Race since it is nice and flat. The weather wasn't perfect today as it was 40F with a windchill of probably close to 32F, but it didn't rain during the race, so I consider ourselves lucky! Getting there, you had to park about a mile down the road from the start in a school and hike it to packet pickup. Thankfully, unlike some of the more local races, they didn't also give you your T-Shirt before the race and make you lug it around. ...

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2009 has been quite a fun & busy year for me in the running/biking/swimming world. Ok, not really in the swimming world, but the other two for sure! For the first time in 8 years I started running again, and I rode/jumped like a maniac in my second season of cyclocross. It was a pretty solid training year in my own personal opinion (and we all know that's the one that matters!) and I hit quite a few milestones along the way There's still room for improvement in 2010 though! Before I can tell you what's ahead, I should probably recap what happened this past year. Running In March, I decided that I was tired of being a lazy bum and...

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It's official - I signed up for my first marathon today! I'll be running the ING Georgia Marathon on March 21, 2010. I have been debating doing a marathon for a long time, with the original goal of signing up for one this fall. However, I'm going to be on vacation for 3 weeks, and then cyclocross season starts - neither of which are very conducive to the marathon lifestyle. Due to this, I decided that 2010 was going to be the year of the marathon for me. I'm sure I'll have more to say about this in the coming weeks, but I look forward to having this finite goal and event to train for. There is nothing...

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Now that I'm back in shape to the point where running a 5K or 10K race is feasible, I've been trying to get out and run at least one road race a month. As part of that quest, I decided to join the Atlanta Track Club as they put on a number of races during the year which are free if you are a member. It just so happened that the first event I was able to do was their end of the year Grand Finale 5K. I woke up nice and early that morning with no problems. Naturally, I didn't end up with as much sleep as I had planned and got less than 6 hours of sleep. After...

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Last weekend, I headed up to Buford, GA for what may be my new favorite cross training activity - kayaking. This was my second time out on the river in a kayak, and I had a lot more confidence getting started this time. I was with a kayak class and somehow we managed to be on a 4 mile section of the river for over 6 hours. This probably had to do with the fact we kept going up and down the same rapids over and over! We were on the Chattahoochee River, on which there are a few small Class 1 rapids and a single Class 2 rapids. The only spill I had was going down the...

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