Miami Running
Posts about running and training in Miami and South Florida, including heat, weather, routes, and local running culture.
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Not quite 12 miles but “real marathon-base work”
Nearly 11½ miles and 145 minutes with FootWorks give me something I badly need after months of detraining: evidence that the Philadelphia rebuild is becoming real marathon-base work.
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I Ran Anyway
After forty minutes of traffic, an empty FootWorks run, thunder, lightning, puddles and waterlogged shoes, I finally stop negotiating with every reason not to run. I run anyway.
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Meeting My Future Self on Rickenbacker Causeway?
A 7.37-mile endurance run over Rickenbacker Causeway in brutal Miami heat turns unexpectedly mythic when I glimpse the kind of older runner I hope I might still become.
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Showing Up for the Test
A solo FootWorks field test gives me something more useful than another good run: a real baseline, and evidence that there was considerably more fitness under the rust than I had been giving myself credit for.
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Something Left at Mile Ten
After months of detraining and doubt, I spend most of ten miles being a good boy—then a 9:44 final mile reminds me that my body may remember something before my confidence does.