Ted Murphy Ted Murphy’s Personal Blog

This morning I had planned a 20 mile run as part of my marathon training program. As I sat on the floor and stretched my legs I started preparing myself mentally for the road ahead. I began to question the goal I had set for today’s run. I knew I could run 20 miles, the [...]

In mid October I decided I was going to make some changes to my lifestyle. I was fat, unhealthy and not taking care of myself. One of the things I decided to give up was caffeine. I am not a big soda drinker, but I found myself addicted to Starbucks, Venti iced vanilla latte to [...]

Ouch. Nobody likes to hear that, but I did. Well…. kinda anyway. A couple of months ago I linked up with my old buddy Michael Brito at IZEAFest. We hadn’t seen each other in about 4 months. He and I have always shot straight with each other, so after a few drinks he dropped a [...]

I finished in 2h 19m 05s, that is an average pace of 8m 41s. I don’t know how I managed to do it but I took 11 seconds per mile off of my run from last weekend, even though I ran 2 miles further. This was the longest run I have done to date and [...]

I officially began training for a marathon this week. My schedule goes from Sunday to Saturday, with a predefined distance to run each day. This week I ran 23 miles, but this morning I ran 14 miles. I have never run that far before and wasn’t sure I could make it but I did. My [...]