Wow… less than 1 week to go. The last week has been a little challenging, I think because of the heat. Rewind to last Saturday: we did a 1/2 marathon at MP effort. Luckily we started at 6:30, because by the last few miles, it was already getting uncomfortably warm. I felt good on the…
I’ve begun to visualize the race each night before I fall asleep. Maybe not the best time/place, but it’s better than nothing. Sometimes I make it to the 3 mile mark, sometimes I make it to mile 20. I also try to visualize the race during each run. Even on easy runs, when there’s 6.2…
Yesterday’s workout: 35 min easy 18 min tempo 40 min easy 18 min temp0 1 mile CD = total of 16 miles I know my tempo pace has quickened, but I was surprised to come through the first tempo session in 18:05 for 5k (I wanted to go longer than the 18 minutes just to…
Our life just wasn’t the same without a dog around! We found Mesa on Craigslist (gotta love the site — we’ve furnished our entire home from there!) from a family who had bought her as a puppy, but had since had two boys and was moving to a home without a yard. Not a good…
I started Phase IV of the Daniels’ plan about a week and a half ago. So far, things are going great. It might be a mentality change. Instead of being buried inside of Phase III, where all I saw was high mileage & really tough workouts, I’m now seeing mileage taper down and the workouts…
Apparently that’s what it’s called when you can’t control your legs & start tripping over them at the end of a marathon. It was also the cause of concern during the middle of last week. On Tuesday, I did 4×12 minutes at tempo pace. It felt terrible from the beginning (after the 1st one I…