By Ryan, on April 11th, 2011%
With just seven days left until Marathon Monday, I thought it would be good to post some updates. Starting with…
The Marathon
The most common question that I’ve been getting asked recently is “Are you still running?” I don’t know whether to be offended that people think I’m going to back out or relieved that they wouldn’t be . . . → Read More: One Week Left!
By Ryan, on March 12th, 2011%

If you’ve been monitoring my training runs over the past few weeks, you’ll see that I’ve slowly been working up my speed and distance. It’s nothing like a marathon yet – but progress is better than nothing.
The reason I haven’t yet made a post proclaiming that I’m cured is because those times are a little bit . . . → Read More: Oh… I get it.
By Ryan, on February 17th, 2011%
Well, almost.
I’ve spent the month and a half since my last post making regular visits to MIT Sports Medicine and the fantastic guys over at Sports and Physical Therapy Associates, and doing all sorts of creative and embarrassing stretches. It turns out that what I thought would be an injury for a week or maybe two… . . . → Read More: Back to the grind
By Ryan, on January 12th, 2011%

Recently the MIT news office published an article on the science behind marathon running, based on the research of an MIT grad student. The goal of the research was to determine at what pace marathon runners can expect to run marathons. If they run too fast, the research can also estimate when they should expect to . . . → Read More: Marathon running, MIT style
By Ryan, on January 9th, 2011%

For those of you who have been watching my training runs (read: no one), you might have noticed that I haven’t been doing much of anything over the past week or so. That’s because I’ve already had my first learning experience – don’t overtrain.
Although I haven’t been officially diagnosed (yet), it’s pretty clear that I have . . . → Read More: Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome: “Runner’s Knee”
By Ryan, on December 21st, 2010%
After hours of messing around with my phone app, I finally figured out how to make a script (read: hack) that lets me integrate it with this website. Now it’ll automatically download my training runs daily — which is unfortunately more frequent than my training runs. Check out my whopping one run so far.
Now I need . . . → Read More: Training Page Working