Capped off a good week today. 73 miles total. Today’s workout was an 18 miler, with the last 8 miles at marathon pace. Uff, these are always the TOUGHEST workouts (physically and mentally) to do. Especially doing them alone, so I whined a little bit (too outwardly) as I was going out the door, and…

This is sad. I’ve done 40 miles in the last 4 days, and my body is pretty achy! My quads are tight, i’m feeling a little twinge in my back, and the ball of my foot hurts a little. The sad part is that I feel like that after averaging just 10 miles a day….

Motivating yourself to start a workout, especially a hard one, when it’s chilly and rainy is really, really tough. Especially when you’re tired, and napping sounds like SO much more fun. But, I got out there. In part, because of the Jen Houck article I posted yesterday :). I know she’s out there hitting the…

Fargo marathon is less than 10 weeks away. That’s a little scary. Especially since this week is supposed to be my first big week. And, of course, I’m coming down with a cold. Argh. I’m still healthy enough to do base mileage, but sick enough where I know I’d have to work pretty hard to…

I woke up the morning of the Birkie and my head didn’t work right. It’s not only because it’s 5:30, but also because I haven’t slept this week. Monday night I was on a plane, so got a total of 4.5 hours of sleep (1.5 on the plane, a 3 hour nap later). The rest…