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Running and drumming are two things that I am very passionate about and they feed off of each other.

Drumming is physical and running is rhythmic. In this blog, I explore the connection between the two.

Changing Up Training To Prevent Physical and Mental Burnout

As logical as the situation may seem, it took me literally months to come to the conclusion that trying to run my first marathon in June...

A Bit of Catch Up and Starting Marathon Training

Catching Up: The Bear Hill Climb Almost a month ago, I ran The Bear race, a 5 mile run up part of Grandfather Mountain. If you've even...

Some Obvious Advice I Relearned The Hard Way

Hitting the proverbial wall when running is never a fun thing. Quite the opposite of that, in fact. I'm not entirely sure why, but...

Building A New Morning Routine

Last week, I began experimenting with a new morning routine. Some of you may recall earlier Run and Drum posts that were kind of...

Race Recovery Week

I've never run a race before that really required a substantial recovery period. Though, in the past, I often would neglect my training...

Two PRs In A Week

This past week has been a pretty intense stretch of training. I actually ended up hitting personal records twice this week for pace and...

More Progress, No Problems.

For some reason, I'll periodically hit stretches of time where I make a lot of progress in distance, time, or both on my runs. I had...

Progress: I'll take it, I guess.

I've been having some solid distance training this week. Wednesday, I started pushing my race paced runs up into the 5 mile range and...

Race Registration Day!

I had almost forgotten what today was when I was waking up, but luckily I had set a reminder to myself that went off just in time. This...

Run In The Fog

I got up nice and early this morning to get a little 3 miler in. It's typically tough enough to get out of bed knowing I'm going to get...

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