three things thursday: I’m a CLE Marathon blogger
January 26, 2012 2 Comments
I feel bad, I haven’t talked about it too much, other than in passing, but I’m a Cleveland Marathon blogger again this year. I know I’ve mentioned I’m running the race before as part of my Mohican 50 mile training. But I’m sure there are some new readers out there, so instead of making you dig, I figured I’d dedicate a three things Thursday to my hometown marathon.
1. I ran the half the past two years and CLE was my very first half marathon in 2010. I started running a year before it and I remember sitting in my room at my old apartment in 2009 reading blogs and news stories about the race and thinking, “I’m going to run that someday.” And a year later, I started this blog with about a month left of training and finishing the race was one of my proudest moments and really helped me realize that I can do whatever I set my mind to.
2. As I mentioned above, the race is part of my 50 mile Mohican Trail Run training. For me, it’ll be just another day on my feet… with a medal at the end. For the essence of time, money and my overall sanity, I’m mixing long runs on roads and trails (I will be running two long days every weekend) until after CLE and then spend the rest of my training on all of the wonderful trails NEO has to offer. But I can’t deny my love of road races: the crowd support, the bands, the signs, the people from all different backgrounds. I’m excited to run the full CLE this year and finally experience everything the race has to offer, not just half of it
3. A while back, some of my twitter friends from other parts of Ohio (like Dave mostly), came up with the idea of the Ohio Triple Crown: Capital City Half Marathon, Flying Pig Marathon and the Cleveland Marathon. Before I was contacted about being a CLE Marathon blogger again, I had decided I was for sure doing Cap City and the Flying Pig as my own personal (and much less expensive and less stressful) Goofy challenge. And then I got a great email about running CLE as well. I still hadn’t chosen Mohican as a 50 miler (I was leaning toward one in August I may still do), so I figured, why not go for the triple crown? I don’t know if anyone who else who was included in the tweets is doing it for sure or not, but it’ll be pretty awesome.
Full disclosure: The wonderful people at the Cleveland Marathon gave me a race entry and I agreed to blog about my training and race day experiences. And you should know by now that I’m too snarky and opinionated and everything I post on here are my own thoughts and experiences.












