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Training Update – Week 3
First, the absolute BEST news: I WILL BE RUNNING FOR BROOKS AGAIN NEXT YEAR!!!! I am so, so, SO grateful! What an awesome company. Despite the dismal end to my first year with them, I have the opportunity to chase that 2016 Qualifier with the Brooks logo in 2014! I am so thankful to be…
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Mesa is one unhappy camper. Not only does she normally hate it when I taper, but I’ve been in taper mode for the 2 weeks before Chicago and the 3 weeks between Chicago and NYC. Don’t let her cuteness fool you… when she is not run, she gets crazy eyes. To sum up how much…
Personal Bests
It’s been a while, eh? 🙂 Brief recap: GAC Alumni 5k: 17:27.22, a 9 second lifetime PR. Missed the stadium record by 9 seconds. Bummer. New Prague 1/2 marathon: 1:19.53. Done as a marathon pace workout (goal was 1:20-1:21). Happened to be a 2+ minute lifetime PR as well (only because my previous PR was from…
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I check my blog stats often, and thought it would be fun to share some of the fun ones with y’all: Old runner motivation massage pic – Interesting… I can how you’d search for each of the individual words: “old runner” (am I really old?!?), “motivation”, “massage”, and “pic”… but all of them combined? Curious…
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