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2 weeks in review: Week 18, the start of the Fargo Marathon cycle: Goal: 80-85 miles with 1 day off Actual: 80 miles, 1 day off. 2 “workouts” on Treadmill: 5 miles progressively faster inside a 10 mile run, and 5 miles hard hill segment at end of a 19 miler. I had that good…
I have talked before about how working with a sports psychologist made a huge difference in my race at Grandma’s. Dr. Asp in Red Wing is that psychologist, and the Red Wing newspaper recently did an article about him working with runners. It is mostly about his work with the high school team, but I…
Remind me not to get behind in my blogging! Three weeks ago: Three weeks ago I went down to the farm to visit my parents while Nate was in WI for a nordic ski training camp. I always enjoy heading down there. Friday night Grandpa volunteered to babysit while grandma, great grandma, and I headed…
19:06 on July 4th at Siren, Wisconsin’s Freedom 5k, good for 2nd place female. Results are here. 6:00 6:20 6:17 6:06 pace for last .1 I was really happy with this effort, especially considering how poorly the last 5k went. I feel like my hip is getting stronger, although definitely not 100% yet. I could…
I tried to run today. I ran 1.5 miles in pain, hoping the pain would subside with a warm up. Both doctors I have seen just think it’s an alignment issue & that I won’t do damage by running through the pain. But at 1.5 I turned a corner and literally had to hobble to…
I needed to do a 8x800m workout during the middle of the week. I mentioned it to the YMCA runners on Monday to see if anyone would be interested… they all were either “travelling”, “not able to make it Tuesday” or “going to be sick”. 🙂 Ha. But I came Tuesday just to ask again…