Brooks post!

I’ve done a couple of talks this fall to different teams/groups. It is so rewarding to influence others to believe in themselves, have that ‘go get ’em’ attitude, and chase goals they’re passionate about. After one talk at a high school, I got the nicest note. Hope they don’t mind me reposting here, it really…

I went to Sisu skiers/Vakava practice on Thursday evening, and wow… today my hamstrings and glutes are REALLY sore :). It’s amazing how the marathon didn’t make me sore (hardly at all), but one testing session at practice could. It reminds me how much I have to work on! We did 4x1200m loops at Battle…

After Sunday’s long/hard marathon pace run, my quads were pretty beat up. I had run for 10 days in a row & my legs were telling me that. Haven’t been that sore in a while! Usually when I’m beat up like that, I recover pretty quickly — usually just a day or so of rest…

I took 2 days off because of the move. Wow, how do we have so much stuff?? [Aside: when we drove to our closing, it was literally -20 out, without windchill. Yikes!] Luckily, we had a lot of help, but it still took 2 full days. I meant to try to run Saturday evening, but…