Ed Mahoney's Blog

All goals have little sub-goals to help you get there. My goal for the year, at the start of the year, was to qualify to run the Boston Marathon. I registered for 4 races, a marathon each season, to help me get there. I got there in my second race in May, so now I need a new goal.

Initially, I told myself my new goal would be to simply remain in marathon-running shape until Boston next April. Sensible enough. I can see now though I’ve become focused on losing weight as my new goal. ...

Karen and I are in Geneva, which felt like a two-day flight, leaving on a Saturday and arriving mid day Sunday. By Monday morning, I found myself running the Promenade along the south shore of Lake Geneva.

The Lake is famous for this Jet d’Eau (water jet). Starting from the Jardin Anglais (English garden), I was able to squeeze in 8 miles. I ran out of runable pavement and into busy streets after about 4 miles.

I wouldn’t say the promenade was busy but it was active with loc...

Margot spent the night and gave me a Father’s Day card in the morning. As soon as her mother picked her up, I was out the door for my Saturday 20 mile ritual. But I didn’t have to worry about the heat. The entire run was in the 70s. It’s been in the 90s all week and this felt like heaven. I ran a 9:30 pace, really most of it under that, the cool air was so nice. Makes a difference.

It’ll be in the 90s pretty much every day between now and race day – August 15th. I’ll be in Eur...

I don’t typically screen scrape race photos. I buy them. But despite having an account with finisherpix.com, because I wasn’t registered for the event, I couldn’t buy the photos. I found myself in the middle of the Harvest Moon Triathlon last Sunday as part of my 20 mile run. Copy left. And really, who names an event “Harvest Moon” in May?

I ran back-to-back 20 milers last weekend. Felt good in both of them. Today, I started walking after 18 miles. The heat got to me. I dran...

These are the formal BB10K race photos. A 10K doesn’t require recovery like a marathon, so I got in some decent training this week, including a 20 miler today. I’m starting back up my weekend 20 milers.

I like how my training for the Colorado Marathon worked out, with strength training twice a week that kept me from running every day. I think strength training and not running back-to-back days as much is a good fit for training at my age. When I did run though, they were 10 and 1...

My driver picked me up in the Porsche at 5:30am this morning for a VIP experience at the 2026 Bolder Boulder 10K. We found great parking and jogged over to the race start with plenty of time to warm up.

The weather was so perfect that I was comfortable in my racing singlet. I warmed up well enough in the corral that my 7:53 first mile was fairly comfortable. It had me feeling a little oxygen debt, but my 2nd mile was faster, running up Folsom in 7:36, so that shows I didn’t go out t...

I’m not happy with my workouts the last two weeks leading up to Memorial Day. I had a goal of working on my speed but it just hasn’t been there. I’m going to write it off as post marathon fatigue. I’m sure that’s a thing – PMF. If not, it should be.

I ran 12 miles today and left my watch in its charger. I just enjoyed the run. 12 miles is a good workout regardless the pace. And part of fatigue can be mental, it’s hard to know the difference. I’v...

It’s not very likely I can gain anymore fitness in the two weeks leading up to the Bolder Boulder. But I would very much like to gain some speed. My 8 minute pace in the Colorado Marathon still feels fast to me, but not for a 10K. Odds are, I’m not going to run a much faster pace. I think what I can do in this short training window is to allow my legs to discover speed.

It’s not about training. I am working in some tempo runs and 100 meter strides in the grass after my runs, that’s simpl...

For the 2026 Colorado Marathon State Championship, I forgot to pack my water bottles. I errantly placed my ear buds in my gear bag that the crew shuttled back to the finish. And my watch didn’t get a full charge in the hotel and died after 10 miles. Tracking my pace was going to be important to meet my objectives and the only tool left to me was to follow the official pacers, which I did, sort of. I mostly ran on vibes and as you can see by the grin on my face, the vibes were good.

My final training week for the Colorado Marathon began with my birthday last weekend. It ended with 522 miles and having lost 20 pounds since the Austin Marathon and 10 training weeks. I ran a 4:12 in Austin. I’m hoping to break 3:50 tomorrow. We will soon see what training plans can accomplish.

I’ll carry 3 gels with me tomorrow. A Carbs Fuel gel with 50 grams of carbs and 200 calories that I’ll consume at 6 miles. Then 2 SIS Beta Fuel gels, each with 40 grams of carbs and 158 calo...