Brooks post!

Wow, how awesome to be able to pound the pavement for an extended period of time. 🙂 (Disclaimer: “extended period of time” does not mean that I call it quits for the day. I did an additional 90 minutes of elliptical and 50 minutes of P90x – trying to maintain a high degree of fitness…

Last week was not my greatest week. I’m not sure why. Ellie, perhaps? Fatigue in general? I’ll recap:The day after Ellie’s accident I was supposed to do 7×6 minutes at tempo. Nate got me out the door. He’s so great about that. The first two reps were awful. We were going into the wind, which…

My constant dilemma :). I’m trying to keep my miles fairly high during these winter months. I know if I don’t, my legs will get weak & I won’t be able to ramp up my mileage as quickly in the spring. So, my mileage will vary from 50-85 over the winter, with the bulk of…

My legs didn’t exactly come around during last week’s down week.  Bummer, I was really hoping they would. All I can do now is make changes to the next week and a half to try to get them feeling snappy and fresh again.  Jerry is so key to this… I, being “type A, love to…