Over the span of the four months I spent training for my first marathon, the 2024 Eugene Marathon, I published 19 articles detailing my experience. Under the alias of “rookie runner,” marathon training...

While training for the Eugene Marathon, I was a magnet for stress injuries, and while cross-training for rehab, I accidentally fell in love with swimming and biking. Already hooked on racing, I decided...

Since December 2023, Jess McComb has been writing a column about her experience training for the Eugene Marathon. On Sunday, the big day arrived. In this piece, McComb reflects on her fears and worries...

On every Saturday for the past four months of my life, I’ve done the same thing. I’ve eaten the same breakfast, run the same few routes, done the same stretch routine and spent the rest of...

I’m just three days away from one of the biggest days of my life. A day I’ve been anticipating for 18 weeks, 404 miles and about 137 hours of training. The cliché reaction would be to...

I was never sure I’d make it to this day — my final long run of marathon training. When I finished my 20-mile run two weeks ago, I wasn’t sure. When I woke up the morning before the big...

In the midst of an ill-timed writing slump that overcame me this week, I’ve been looking through my past columns for inspiration. As I scrolled through the headlines, I noticed one glaring issue:...

Do you ever wish you could stop time? If I could, I would freeze everyone in their place and wander about the world for a while without anyone asking anything of me. In the somber, solemn last few weeks...

I knew training for a marathon would be hard. But I thought the hard parts would be consistently working out six days a week, motivating myself for the early workouts and completing long runs. Ironically,...

Last Wednesday, I listened to an episode of This American Life called “Embrace the Suck,” featuring stories about people who’ve had shit situations handed to them and decided to make...

I didn’t want to write this week’s column. I’ve written, deleted and rewritten this first paragraph time and time again, trying to find a way to admit that I’m injured again without...

When I hit my halfway training mark last week, I uploaded a screenshot of the past nine and a half weeks of my training schedule onto social media. I track my progress on a document that details every...