68 mile week. Take that, lack of motivation. You can’t get the best of me, despite your attempts at throwing -15 degree windchills at me for a long 18 miler today.
It did, however, get the best of my strength routine this week. But, I guess you have to take what you can get. Next week will be better, I promise.
What are your training and racing goals this year? I am currently about 3/4 of the way full for camp, so please send me a note if you are interested. If this is any testament to the value of camp: most all of previous year’s attendees are returning :). Last year’s awesome crew. To say…
I picked up my packet earlier today. How fun! I’ve never run this marathon as an “elite”. WOW, the TCM folks make you feel like gold! You walk into their “hospitality suite” at the Crown Plaza, and they take care of everything for you. Packet – check. Run down on all the info I need…
My second 100+ mile week is just about in the bank (105, actually)! Mileage like this makes my week a little crazy, but my body is responding well. I’m amazed, actually. So what does a 105 mile week look like? Nate said that would be interesting to write about. I said I didn’t know, since…
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…
Notice the blog post titles have changed to : running vs. training 🙂 Let’s start there, shall we? I have a lot to catch up on, so maybe I’ll try breaking things up into multiple posts. Week 32: 21.3 miles High-light: a 10.3 mile run with KH who came down from Minneapolis for a workout….
I’m pretty sure before most of my workouts this cycle, I’ve wondered if I could actually finish them. Today was no exception. 20 miles total: 2 WU, then 2×10 minutes at tempo, 10 miles easy, 15 minutes at tempo, 2 CD. I tried to do this about a month ago, and failed miserably. It was…