Arizona: All The Running

Arizona: All The Running

As many of you already know, my goal for last Sunday’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Arizona Marathon was sub 3:30. That would have been (at least) an 8-minute PR from my 3:37 in Sacramento in early December. After an amazing Q&A session with @RunEMZ and tweet...
Ending The Year, Perfectly.

Ending The Year, Perfectly.

This past weekend was my final race for 2013… the California International Marathon, otherwise known as CIM. It is known as a “fast” course with a downhill profile, but is filled with little rolling hills on a downward profile. See photo below. It is run...
#SA2LV Recap pt. 2: Las Vegas

#SA2LV Recap pt. 2: Las Vegas

This is part 2 of the Rock ‘n’ Roll #SA2LV challenge, where I would run the San Antonio Half Marathon, followed by the Las Vegas Marathon all in a single day. Previously on PavementRunner.com… After a night of hanging and taking funny pictures with...
#SA2LV Recap pt. 1: San Antonio

#SA2LV Recap pt. 1: San Antonio

The weekend of November 17, 2013 is definitely going to be one I will never forget. I’m not really sure what I expected going into a weekend that involved several plane flights and two races in one day. For those of you unaware with the Rock ‘n’ Roll...
20 Miles and the US Half

20 Miles and the US Half

This past weekend was a BIG milage weekend for me. I have the San Antonio/Las Vegas double-day race for Rock ‘n’ Roll in two weeks and needed to get good strong back-to-back runs in. I had the US half marathon on Sunday, so I decided to do 20 miles the day...
#RnRLA – Half Marathon Recap

#RnRLA – Half Marathon Recap

With the fifth and final California Rock ‘n’ Roll race for the year, I wanted to simply enjoy it. It was Halloween weekend and fresh off a PR in San Jose, I wasn’t really looking to race and enlisted the help of Lisa of RunWiki.org. I reached out to...