I hope you’re having a very Merry Christmas! I hope it’s been filled with family, friends, love, and a few fun runs :).
A lot happened this year! For a fun pictoral update, you can check out our online Christmas card :). http://porathchristmas.blogspot.com/
Looking forward to a great 2014!
~Nichole, Nate, and Mesa
Almost finished packing to leave for the Big Apple! So exciting! NYC psted this women’s preview: http://www.letsrun.com/news/2013/10/013-new-york-city-marathon-womens-preview-wins-600000-epic-clash-edna-kiplagat-priscah-jeptoo/ which lists all of the “elites” that have been invited. Note there are just 14 Americans listed here, and just 37 total (international + USA). It’s smaller than in years previous. It still is unbelievable to see my…
I won’t make you scroll through an entire long post to find out how today went – I finished 2nd in 1:04.xx (my watch was 1:03:57) at Stillwater’s Log Run today. My goal was sub 60. So at least I’ve warned you that you’ll likely waste the next few minutes of life listening to my…
Training recap, Weeks 1-20 Week 1: Jan 18-24: 72 Week 2: Jan 25-31: 64 mile down week, including the indoor 5k in 19:37 – race recap here. Week 3: Feb 1-7: 81 Week 4: Feb 8-14: 100 Week 5: Feb 15-21: 82 Week 6: Feb 22-28: 77 – starting to leave out a few of…
Week 29: Aug 1-7: 32.7 miles Another week bites the dust! It wasn’t the bigger week that I had planned on. Oh well. Friday got away from me as I went in to see the dentist (Nate!), then spent ~5 hours going to/from and at our first designer appointment for the house. We then picked…
There are 8 weeks and a couple days left to TCM. It’s crazy how fast time goes by! I can tell I’m stronger for this cycle, this week will be my second 80 mile week of this cycle (vs. only one during the entire cycle for Fargo). I’ve held up pretty good, but training at…
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…