Jerry sent me the next 12 weeks of training. WOW. It’s pretty incredible to look at and to think that I might be able to DO all of this. His email warned me before I opened it: “After working on this for a while it was strange to look at an 85 mile week and…
One of the things that has defined my training over the past year has been adding the “little things” to my training. One of those things has been nutrition. About 2 months before Grandma’s, I decided I also needed to make changes to my diet. I have always been a heavier (more dense?) runner, and…
During my very slow COLL performance, I had time to think about why I wasn’t performing as I had hoped. One of the things I decided was that from that day on, I needed to make the most out of each and every hard workout in my training schedule. Since Grandma’s, Jerry has had me…
Oh, man… what a torturous 25k race. My goal was to run under a 1:38. I ran slower than 1:45. Not good. The plan was to start in 6:15 pace for a couple of miles and then bring that down to close to 6:05s. I started off just fine, but after the 3rd mile I…
I can feel my legs/body adapting to my current mileage & training regimen – yeah! It took longer than I would have thought to get back into the routine of daily mileage, not exactly sure why. Perhaps I was overly optimistic about my ability to get back into it. [I was running ~80-85/week for Grandma’s,…
Since the marathon, I have raced four times, but have been so busy that I haven’t been able to recap them. Here’s an attempt: Uphill Challenge: I got the chance through work to go out to O.R. (Outdoor Retailer trade show) in Salt Lake City, Utah at the beginning of August. The big event at…