Ed Mahoney's Blog

The fall colors don’t last long in Colorado. There is a lot of brown. But even the brown looked gorgeous to me today as I was struck by this feeling of joy as I was running among fallen leaves and cool weather.

The view of the Flatirons was a bit hazy too, but the brown everywhere added to my feeling of running in the fall, my favorite time of year.

I’ve been running this East Boulder Trail since 1990, well before Chris Lear made it famous in his Running with the Buffaloes c...

Karen and I are doing well on our weekly hiking routine. We got up to the mountains today are were rewarded with cool but sunny weather. Perfect hiking weather. We lunched later in Lyons at Main Stage Brewing. Really good food.

I found time to run 13 miles on my East Boulder Trail later in the afternoon. It’s a great hill workout which is something I don’t get much of on my typical LoBo Trail.

In 3 more weeks, I’ll see if this new 5K training plan is working at the Shoes ...

I’m deviating from my marathon training plan to focus on speed. I’ll reduce my mileage quite a bit but I’ll be adding two track days per week. Just thinking about it turns my thoughts back to high school and college. Back to when I was fast.

I wore a shirt displaying my alma mater at the Boulder Marathon 5K to reach for that feeling. And I lined up close to the starting line with the fast boys like a poser. Maybe I was fantasizing but I believe that I have to put myself where it is I w...

I’ve spent my lifetime of running without ever thinking of running the Boston Marathon. Karen and I visited Boston in late summer of 2023 and stayed at the Lenox Hotel with a window view of the marathon finish line on Boylston. Look at that view. It was enough to get me to start thinking of running Boston.

3 years later, I set a goal for myself at the start of the year to qualify for Boston. Suddenly, it meant something to me. If you read this blog, clearly I’m a marathon runner. The ...

A 5K is short enough that there really isn’t much time to fix a mistake. I learned that Sunday morning.

I lined up for the Boulderthon 5K about three runners deep from the starting line. That was intentional. I didn’t want to spend the first quarter mile weaving around people, and I figured anyone standing that close to the line probably had some idea what they were doing.

I saw people who didn’t belong there but the guy next to me certainly looked like he did. He appeared to be cl...

Athletes are funny. If you watch Ted Lasso, you know what I mean. The last couple of episodes have been on an injured football player. I can identify. Tomorrow is the Boulder Marathon and I’m massively disappointed that I can’t run the distance because I’d been prepping for it all year. I was confident I’d win my age division and more importantly, I thought I had a shot at breaking 3:30.

I’ve tried to stay positive. I’ve made the 5K my consolation prize. I might push myself a bit ...

Not too many photos of me in a hot tub out there online. The Rec Center hot tub opened today after a long closure, and it was empty except for me because most of the pools are still closed. I’d been wanting it to treat my tendinopathy, and now I have it.

I also ran today for the first time in 3 weeks. I probably should have only run 3 miles, but I was feeling good and ran 6. I could feel the injury but don’t think I stressed it. Hope my PT isn’t upset if I stretch his returning-to-run...

While I was watching UT beat OSU, my son-in-law Eric was running a gut-wrenching 100 miles in the Utah heat this past weekend. The following is his story.

The alarm went off at 3:45 Friday morning for Eric and everyone else in his crew.

He ate some oatmeal, drove to Kaysville, Utah, and at 5:00 a.m. stepped into the darkness with the other runners starting the Wasatch Front 100.

The race wasted little time introducing itself. Over roughly the first seven miles, the course...

I spent the week with my product team in STL and much of the talk was on planning for AI. I work with some really smart people and the conversations were all extremely thought provoking. I don’t subscribe to any of the dystopian hype around AI but I recognize it will be transformational. I walked away from STL determined to adapt to the new world.

I had my first PT visit Friday and the message was along the same lines. I can actually run the Boulder Marathon at the end of the month, a...

This year’s visit to Victoria went by too fast. I’m launching a new product and had to work 10 hour days. Glad I took Monday off for Karen’s birthday. That’s when we paid our annual tribute to the Butchart Gardens. The photo above is of their tea house where we enjoyed tea, scones, iota sandwiches and desserts.

Partly because I have a running injury and can’t run, so I’m watching my weight, I abstained from alcohol all week. Well, until Friday anyway. This was a good local craft IPA...