Both times we’ve had a major snow storm, Nate’s been in Hibbing. That leaves me to try to clear our driveway. Ug. It’s 2+ cars wide, and long. Today I successfully cleared 1/2 of it. Success! Only took 1.5 hours. I was actually really proud of this. The end of the driveway is always the…

Ahh, I’ve forgotten what this feels like! I did an 18.5 miler today. It’s been a heavy 4 days: 15 miles Monday, 8 miles easy Tuesday, 10 Wednesday w/ 4 at threshold, and then a long 18.5. 50.5 miles in 4 days, my legs are saying? They’re just a little achy-sore right now. Should be…

The first week back from being sick I managed 65 miles. Like I said in my earlier post, I noticed some weird things with my HR. I think it was because I was still getting over whatever I had. Over the weekend I was in Denver, running at altitude. I was taking it easy, out…

Nate and I went out on Sunday for a run together. We decided to put a few hard miles into the middle of our run, up Flower Valley Road. If you happen to run all the way down that road, it ends up to be a 4.75 mile run back up it… ALL uphill… quite…

I have a LOT of work to do! Yesterday was the first day I had run in… well, a long time. I did a whole 4 miles on the treadmill yesterday. I wanted to start out conservatively — there’s nothing worse than getting healthy and then taking a step back. Today I woke up and…

How frustrating! I’ve been sick for 2.5 weeks now. The first week I took off 3 days from training to try to kick it in the butt quickly. Then went back to running/skiing (mostly skiing, actaully) moderately — definitely not doing as much or as hard as I normally do. I started to get better…