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  ZAP life is pretty chill right now. Everyone is pretty much on a break, or getting in base mileage. Two of our newest athletes are here settling in, and our third new zapster is on her way in a few weeks. Besides working camps and getting situated for the upcoming year, I am getting ready for the longest race of my life. Actually….over two and half times the longest race of my career.   After racing two successful races at US Track Nationals in Eugene, OR, I decided to hit the roads before I took some downtime. I raced the Pe...

Over the past year I have found that, at times, training to be a professional runner can feel much like trying to dig through asphalt with a wooden spoon. Putting in vast amounts of effort but never really getting anywhere. Obviously, it was time for a change. A move that would take me one more quarter of the way across the country and hopefully from humble personal bests to slightly better than humble personal bests, or at the very least allow me to find more enjoyment in running. Having started my running career in southeastern Idaho, moving ...

  I am writing this blog as I enter my fourth week at ZAP Fitness. I came here by way of Indianapolis, Indiana and Grand Valley State University. My first few weeks at ZAP have been filled with many new experiences: food (believe it or not I had not eaten a green vegetable in my life until a few weeks ago), mountainous terrain, living in the dirty south, coaching, and new teammates. Most important is the fact that nothing here felt strange or uncomfortable, and my new teammates felt like old teammates from day one. I am very lucky to have ...

The spring season is a great time to be at ZAP.  The weather is mild.  The parks we frequent are in full bloom.  Everyone here is arriving at peak form and performing very well in races all over the country.  For me, too, the spring has been very exciting.  I came away from both the Mt. SAC and Cardinal Invitationals with substantial PRs in both the 5k and 10k, respectively. More than breakthrough performances, however, I am most happy with the process I have gone through in achieving those new best times here at ZAP.&n...

I may have graduated from college exactly 1 year ago to this day, but that doesn't mean I've lost the spark of intellectual curiosity.  In fact, with Thomas and Warrenburg to argue with on daily runs, during dinner, and afterward in the kitchen, you could say the flame burns even brighter.  One of my favorite classes I took in college was entitled Judgment & Decision Making.  It was class that meshed professors from the departments of Psychology, Economics and International and Public Affairs.  During lectures, we frequentl...

It’s hard to believe it is already June. We haven’t really had much summer weather around here, and I have only run two track races. The creek we soak our legs in is at an all time high with the rain fall, it rushes so loudly you can’t tell if it’s raining or just the sound of the creek.   Over the last 2-3 weeks I have started to workout with all the guys again, and with so many new people this year it is the first time I have really worked out with them. I have been battling an injury since last winter, it isn&rs...

Today is Monday, June first, the official first day of summer (in my opinion). As a result I am in a happy mood overall as this is my favorite time of year, but today in particular I'm really upset because I have been sidelined yet again due to an achilles injury. It occurred tuesday of this past week while running a 2mile-mile-mile-800 cutdown out at Todd. What makes it worse is that I was rounding into pretty good shape (again) and was less than two weeks out from the pre "Pre" track meet in Oregon where I was going to be running my first ou...

This winter made me a huge believer in the benefits of training in Tallahassee. Pete has always been a huge proponent of training in different places to have a change of pace and to keep things fresh. After dealing with an especially cold winter in the northeast, highlighted by running the New Years Eve Midnight Run in icy, eight-degree weather, I was ready for a warmer climate. Tallahassee has plenty of training venues, including greenways, bike paths, forested trails, dirt roads, and more, all of which make it an ideal place t...