Brad Lay

Today marks the third week of the 12 week training program I’ve started to try and improve my fitness prior to the Chicago Marathon later in the year. Overall this week a little bit less than last week because on most of Friday and Saturday were spent doing the most amazing thing – my daughter was born! Anna Lay born on the 15th of July …

Today marks the second week of the 12 week training program I’ve started to try and improve my fitness prior to the Chicago Marathon later in the year. Overall a great week with Wednesday being the biggest day where I did a 2 hour walk to Empeiji Temple and clocking in 29,877 steps with 2185 active calories which included a steady run for 20 minutes …

Today marks the first week of a roughly 12 week training program I’ve started to try and improve my fitness prior to the Chicago Marathon later in the year. I realized that after doing a bit of reading that I was neglecting to do any base training and only really running once a week at maximum heartrate (zone 5). This ultimately meant I wasn’t building …

Something a little bit different this time for training since I was traveling last week (Jacksonville, FL) and only got home for less than 24 hours before heading out again to Arizona. I landed at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport around 2pm local time, jump straight on to the rental car shuttle bus and made my way to the nearby rental car park. After getting myself a …

Another weekend and another beautiful training day for running around Central Park. Started off around 12 noon riding a Citi Bike north along Central Park West making my way to the starting point where the NYRR Joe Kleinerman 10K starts on January 7th 2017. Remember my goal is less than 50 minutes to do 10km, and slowly but surely I’m slowly decreasing the time. I think a few …

Training over the past few weeks did not quite happy due to a slight injury that I wanted to let fully recover. Was happy to get out today and enjoy the weather whilst it’s still not too cold, but it’s certainly starting to feel chilly. Clearly the thanksgiving festivities over the past few days and my lack of training hasn’t helped my time very much, …