Posts Tagged Brodie Wise
A week of Jeanne
Posted by Thomas Neuberger in Believe in the Run, General Running, Trail Running on January 18th, 2010
I am training for the HAT 50k with my friend Jeanne Bayers, so we have been spending more time with each other as of late. Jeanne also was the first to complete an “Andy” last week, so this week over 100 Dailymilers ran 3.42 miles to complete a “Jeanne” (her Boston Marathon time of 3 hours 42 minutes).
On Saturday I met up with Jeanne, Paul Gochar, Bobby O’Kane, and Wendell to run the trails in Patapsco State Park. The video does not do the hills and mud justice. This was a tough hilly muddy 8 mile mess.
Sunday, Jeanne and I met up for a 14 mile run through Baltimore and the rain. Fellow Dailymiler’s Brodie W. and Brian B. joined us for the run. Running with friends sure makes the nasty weather easier to take. If you are on Dailymile friend these runners, they are great people.
Me, Brian B., Jeanne B., Brodie W.
Patapsco Trail Run from Thomas Neuberger on Vimeo. Believe in the Run
Couple 5 mile runs added to the schedule
Posted by Thomas Neuberger in Believe in the Run, General Running on November 17th, 2009
Green Valley North Turkey Trot
I will be running The Green Valley North Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving day with some friends and family.
Then in December I will be running a Baltimore classic, The Celtic Solstice 5 Mile Run. This is a cold one! Jeanne Bayers and Brodie Wise are just a couple of the dailymile.com‘ers that will be there. This race usually sells out. If your interested RUN don’t walk to sign up. You can sign up and get the jacket for $45, or just pay a $15 fee to run the event.
Hope to see you out there!
You gotta have friends.
Posted by Thomas Neuberger in 2009 Marathon Training, Believe in the Run, General Running on September 13th, 2009
From Left to Right Me, Brodie, Katie before the CCR NCR 20 Miler
I guess when I used to think about running I thought of it as an individual sport. I was wrong. These past few months of training has made it crystal clear.
I have trained for all 7 of my previous marathons with Jeff Arricale. At the end of the Spring marathon season Jeff let me know he was taking a break. The training has not been the same. Having a partner to run the long Saturday runs with makes a huge difference. When you run with a partner you push each other to run faster even if you don’t feel like it. You make it out to the start of the run with purpose. I find myself running slower this training. I think a lot of it is that I don’t have anyone to keep up with. I am running Chicago next month and have no clue what my time will be.
On the flip side other running friends are helping me out. Juda’s Tuesday track nights introduced me to a group of pretty decent runners and had me doing organized speed work. Mean Jeanne the BOMF running machine and I have become closer this season and have done some of our own track workouts followed by a cup of coffee and some conversation at Starbuck’s. Katie from Charm City Run joined me for some of my last runs around the Baltimore harbor and showed me how fast she really is when she finishes 20 mile runs 30 minutes in front of me. My friend Brodie and I reconnected with in the crowd of runners at the Maryland 1/2 Marathon. Brodie came up from Silver Spring early in the morning to Baltimore for the Charm City Run NCR trail 20 Miler last weekend to run it with me. Brodie is a much faster runner than me. I really appreciate that he stayed by my side giving me encouragement the entire time. Thanks Brodie.
Once I realized that travel to the Montreal Marathon was going to be prohibitive, Katie let me know she knew someone that had extra rooms reserved in Chicago for the marathon weekend. Jeff had an extra bib for Chicago. Everything fell into place and now I will be running the Chicago marathon. Awesome.
One other set of friends that have helped out are all the people I virtually run with on Dailymile.com. So I guess I did not train all by myself for this Falls race; I had a lot of help.
PS – I found out that I did not make the wait list cut offs for the North Face Challenge 50k. Might be a blessing in disguise. I am really looking forward to Chicago.
