I don’t even know where to begin! What a crazy end to three weeks of weird post-vacation training. I was so excited to find my legs turning around the first half of this week. With each day, they felt a little better. Soreness was going away, the fatigue in the quads was gone. I was…
I’ve had continuous problems with my Garmin 210. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely loved it, I’ve just had to do a master or partial reset numerous times (as well as work with them on getting my HR monitor to work). Is this normal? So – I thought this would be useful to people, in…
Since coming back from vacation my legs haven’t been 100%. I’d say, even less than 20%? At first, I thought it was hydration related since I came back, it has been oppressively hot and humid. I had been running in heat while out in Colorado, but there obviously isn’t the humidity. The first run I…
I’m taking two days off before starting my next Chicago training phase. Although this is scary for any athlete to do, I know it is best for me. Jerry is editing that training phase as we speak, and I am really excited to see what it will look like. I know it’ll be the start…
I won’t make you scroll through an entire long post to find out how today went – I finished 2nd in 1:04.xx (my watch was 1:03:57) at Stillwater’s Log Run today. My goal was sub 60. So at least I’ve warned you that you’ll likely waste the next few minutes of life listening to my…
The last week of training has been a little rough. It started this weekend with 8x1000m. Nate bravely ventured to the track with me. It was his first VO2 max workout, so we agreed that he’d edit the repeats to 800m and see how many he could do. My goal was to have mine in…