jokach's marathon training blog

I get a good deal of motivation from reading about other runners long run experiences on facebook and twitter each week. It reminds me that i'm not the only one training for the spring marathon season, and of course depending on where you are in the coun… more »

A good week of training so far this week ........ until, yes, more snow. Seems we're going to get buried again Thursday into Friday although i'm hopeful that I can get some sort of run in tomorrow before it gets too bad. I'm also hopeful that I can still… more »

"Ouch" is all I can say about my hill run today .. the first time i've wiped out in a few years. I figure i'd be a nice guy and not post the pictures directly on the front page of my blog for fear of scaring people, but here is my wound after I returned… more »

I started off my day today with a good 20.25 miler .. yep, a GOOD long run. Its been awhile since I can say i've had a good long run, its taken a lot of work to get here. I classify it is as a GOOD long run because: It wasn't freezing cold out (no… more »

So far this week has been pretty decent for training, the weather hasn't been terribly bad despite what they had forecast. Tuesday was supposed to be snow in the morning, but it never showed up (which i'm not upset about). It was unfortunate thought beca… more »

I was surfing around my favorite Jersey Shore sites and found this recent picture from along the course of the Ocean Drive marathon showing the boardwalk covered in snow .. its kind of symbolic for the way the winter has gone so far for our region and wi… more »

I remember more now the two reason why I started keeping a blog like this. First, I enjoy sharing the experiences of what an average 'not-even-close-to-being-elite' guy goes through when training for a marathon in the hopes that it motivates someone (eve… more »

I usually don't write this early in the day, or on a Wednesday for that matter, but there isn't much else to do during a major snowstorm except sit and write in the ole' blog ... we're at 15 inches of snow already and its still coming down. Its been a to… more »

<div style='float:left;margin-right: 5px'></div>I was disappointed this morning when I got up for my 20 miler, and realized that it really did snow outside. The friendly weather folk continued to say it was coming, it was coming, and by the t… more »

Just a quick update tonight, I needed to share that just one day after the famous Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, I was welcomed with about 3 inches of snow as I headed out for 12 miles before work this morning (note that I almost got hit by several sn… more »