Brian Rock 
I’m currently in the middle of my spring training block. I’m targeting two key races – a large, local 10k at the beginning of April and a half marathon in Delaware towards the end of April. After my fall marathon, my goal was to work on my speed before returning to marathon training for another … Read more
It’s New Year’s Eve, and that seems like a good reason to look back and reflect on the year in running – and to think ahead to my plans and goals for 2022. Despite the fact that I’ve run on and off since high school, this is the first time that I’ve consistently run for … Read more
This year, one of my goals was to run my first marathon. I registered for the New Jersey Marathon in October, and eventually had my plans shifted to Atlantic City due to Covid. But happily, I was able to run a race. Here’s my race report. Training for My First Marathon I wrote more extensively … Read more
After I spent the spring training for a half, the plan was to continue to ramp up my mileage and prepare for a full marathon in the fall. The bad news is that life got busy in a variety of ways, and I stopped writing this blog for a while. I had hoped to write … Read more
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that I’m training for a marathon this fall. Let me apologize for not updating things lately. I promise I’ll get back to it soon. But I’ll also be running a different kind of race. I’ve decided to run for Board of Education in my town … Read more
I’ve seen this question pop up a lot recently in running groups – does the Covid vaccine have any impact on your running performance? And can you run after getting the vaccine? Generally, the responses seem to fall into two categories. Some people have no symptoms at all, and there is seemingly no impact on … Read more
Two weeks ago, I ran my latest half marathon time trial. I was in much better shape than I was last year, and I expected to both improve my time and run a better race. Unfortunately, while my time did improve significantly I still blew up in the second half of the race – similar … Read more
For the past twelve weeks or so, I’ve been training for a half marathon. I initially planned on running an actual half marathon this Sunday in Atlantic City. However, I waited too long to register and it filled up. I also had an appointment to get the Moderna vaccine this week, and I didn’t want … Read more
Out of Thin Air, by Michael Crawley, is an excellent book about running. It’s not a book that focuses on training per se, but there are nuggets of running wisdom interspersed through its engaging storytelling. Lately, I’ve been on a reading kick and a lot of the books I’m reading have been about running. Some … Read more
I’m now halfway through my current half marathon training block, and I thought this was a good point to stop and reflect on how things are going. I’ve made a few adjustments throughout these first six weeks, but I’ve more or less stuck to the original plan that I laid out. Early on, there was … Read more