by Sam Stortz | Mar 9, 2024 | General |
Let me paint you a picture. It’s Tuesday night. I’ve finished my run, showered, and just had dinner. It’s 7pm. Meghan is at her grandparents in the suburbs because we haven’t moved out yet. The night is mine… WHAT do I do? I find myself...
by Sam Stortz | Feb 26, 2024 | General |
The Eugene Marathon is in less than 9 weeks. My training since the last update has gone about as well as I could have imagined with my last 5 weeks’ mileage being 68, 68, 70, 70, 69; remarkable consistence. My long run workout last week was a 20 miler with a 15...
by Sam Stortz | Feb 22, 2024 | General |
“The most shocking thing when I started meditating was being given the simple exercise to observe my breath coming in and out of the nostrils, not controlling it, just observing it, and I couldn’t do it for more than 10 seconds. For 10 seconds I would try...
by Sam Stortz | Feb 12, 2024 | General |
I wrote a post about 10 years ago with the following thesis: The stage of life that you’re in is the stage of life that you want to be in. I don’t know what was going on in my life for me to make such a profound statement, but in the 10 years since writing...
by Sam Stortz | Feb 4, 2024 | General |
The Eugene marathon is in exactly 12 weeks and I want to log how things have gone up to this point. I’ve been following ‘the plan’ for the last four weeks. My coach wrote the plan with a goal of 2 hours and 30 minutes, which is 5:43 mile pace. That...
Recent Comments