Just a short post tonight to let people know that I will be speaking at the Just Food Community room on Monday August 27th Wednesday August 29th at 6:30pm. If you will be in the Northfield area, you should stop by and say hi. My talk is titled “Refueling Your Body“, and it will be about my training, and the role that nutrition has played in my quest to make myself faster and stronger. Hope to see you there!
In an effort to capture as many details as I can (SO many things went right, I want to make sure I can replicate them!), I’ll break this into a few blog posts over the course of the next week. Helps me just to focus on one portion of the race at a time —…
Gosh, sorry my blog hasn’t been very exciting lately. Still injured, but still hopeful… that seems to be the theme of all my posts in the last month. A little boring and a lot depressing, that’s what it amounts to. Anyway, here’s another quick update: I’m able to walk quickly without pain!! Huge step forward…
I can feel my legs/body adapting to my current mileage & training regimen – yeah! It took longer than I would have thought to get back into the routine of daily mileage, not exactly sure why. Perhaps I was overly optimistic about my ability to get back into it. [I was running ~80-85/week for Grandma’s,…
I am obviously over-exaggerating, but I can’t help but reference a great children’s book! It’s the children’s librarian in me (high school job – LOVED it!) 🙂 Exaggerating or not, Monday and Tuesday were given to me to challenge my resolve. Monday I met up with Brian at Anytime Fitness to do a 9 mile…
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If I didn’t want this, it would be so (too) easy to take a LOT of days off. My training week starts on Monday. I knew this week had: 3 days x 12 mile doubles 18 mile long run 5x1000m repeats 10 miles with 10x100m surges/gear change practice 1 rest day You can see where…