It’s only half way through Day 1 and I already feel gross. But it’s completely my own doing. This morning Nate made a beautiful omlet, complete with a chicken breast and bacon. I was so excited. I haven’t eaten anything resembling this in a really long time! As we changed into our running gear later…
This training cycle has been more up and down than I’ve ever experienced, I think. The good news? I’m now faster than I was post-Beauterre/pre-Anna (see the December 2016 5k race blog post here), which is a point in my life that I remember as being “fast”. So despite the seemingly frequent downs, I hang…
During these three down/off weeks, I wasn’t just lying around, despite my best efforts to do so. It’s actually been a little crazy! -Finished a T-shirt quilt for a graduating senior in Northfield I didn’t budget my time wisely and ended up scrambling every night for a week to finally deliver it at 11pm a…
5×1 mile @ T, 4x200m. 18 miles total. Oddest evening ever: First, a truly awesome tempo workout with Craig at the Carleton track. I knew I needed to get on some solid ground for this since I know I’ve been doing too much on the treadmill. I made my own workout up for the day…
A short recap: Week 16: 84 miles (recovery week) 5×1000, 5x200m cut downs Long tempo workout that I nailed (did alone, and didn’t even stop! Yeah!) – recap here. Week 15: 109 miles 24 mile run with 3 cut down miles (20, 21, 22) at 6:30, 6:15, 6:00. 4×2 miles MP with .5 mile recovery…
The last week of training has been a little rough. It started this weekend with 8x1000m. Nate bravely ventured to the track with me. It was his first VO2 max workout, so we agreed that he’d edit the repeats to 800m and see how many he could do. My goal was to have mine in…
Glad to hear that things seem to be coming around, Nichole. You're spring season might not turn out as planned, but you can still have a great year.