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…
Today is the start of a 105 mile week… uff! To be followed up by a 95 mile week. This is the highest 2-week average I’ll have in the build for the Trials. I’m excited to work this hard, but also a little scared of the workouts scheduled. They’re crazy hard, even without all of…
I was excited to try a hard workout by myself. Jerry mentioned earlier in this cycle that I needed to make sure I could hit some of these key workouts solo to help build confidence and mental toughness. So I started out & imagined hitting all of my goal times & being able to email…
For one of my first “trying to only eat healthy/organic/from a farmers market” meals, I attempted to make a Gazpacho soup recipe (from the Co-op) and bake a squash. Sounds great, right? The recipe was easy enough: fresh tomatoes, crushed, with a cucumber sliced small (supposed to be food-processed, but we don’t own such an…
As I’ve said in a previous post, Jerry is challenging me this cycle to step my times down quicker than I ever have before – to repeat and goal race times that I NEVER thought might be possible (or at least so quickly). Today’s workout was the first fast workout at the next step down…
Pain free run, swelling free evening. YEAH!!!!