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…
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…