I am blessed to be working with such bright & caring individuals. I’m not completely over the low quad spasm yet, but it’s getting better quickly. The worst part of every injury is the “What should I do? How can I get over this the quickest? Is it smart to keep running? If not, how…
Week in ReviewWeek 13 (to-go!): 71 miles total (recovery!!) vs. plan of 73One day offOne long run, 21.65 miles (story below)One hard workout: 14.25 miles total: 3×10 minutes at 6:00 pace, 20 minutes at goal MP (6:09) The weather has finally turned cooler, which has been great. I’m such a cold-weather runner, it isn’t funny…
I haven’t written much lately… probably because I’ve logged 95 miles each of the last two weeks. Impressive, especially considering I handled them pretty well (all things considered)! Before Grandma’s, I had one week of 95, but couldn’t do a second. That 95 mile week took everything out of me and I had a hard…
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…
We’re within 100 days of the Trials… that’s scary… A quick mid-week update: I’ve been running a little tired lately, as evidenced by my TC 10 performance. It’s hard to know what to do (since I’m relatively new to marathoning and mileage). I think I’m feeling this way because there have been so many changes…
67 miles (down week)15 mile hard tempo workoutTC 10 mile, 1:02.401 day off (YEAH!) I purposefully had a down week this week to accommodate the 10 mile. Last week had been such a great training week that I thought big things might be in store. I started in the US championship wave for the first…