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Two miles hard: 6:45 and 6:08
My first “hard” day back. I didn’t have much time to run on Saturday, so decided to make the most out of the time I had. I tried to put in a 2 mile all-out effort. It started out slower & gradually picked it up — first mile was 6:45 (I think I started out…

Nate’s Carb Adventure for His First Marathon
Nate is signed up to race Fargo this year. He held out on the marathon distance, but the combination of having to answer the question “Have you run a marathon” with “no”, (answer really was: well, I have run the marathon distance as a training run for skiing, but no, not technically… which is WAAAY…
Wow…
It’s so cold and miserable out! Hope I can muster the dedication to stick to the plan (today is supposed to be 10-12 400s)… there’s nothing easier than staying in and skipping workouts than weather like this :(. One cool thing that happened yesterday: Gu sent me an entire bag of energy gels and chews!!!…

Personal Bests
It’s been a while, eh? 🙂 Brief recap: GAC Alumni 5k: 17:27.22, a 9 second lifetime PR. Missed the stadium record by 9 seconds. Bummer. New Prague 1/2 marathon: 1:19.53. Done as a marathon pace workout (goal was 1:20-1:21). Happened to be a 2+ minute lifetime PR as well (only because my previous PR was from…

Sleeepy…
It’s just after 9:00 on Tuesday. I’ve had a cup of coffee, and I’m hoping that it just hasn’t kicked in yet. My brain is so tired it just hurts. I hate that feeling. Yesterday was just as bad. I went to bed around 9:45 last night (I vowed after yesterday that I’d get to…
Nope :(
I can’t run a marathon on this leg. I’m calling the doctor tomorrow & will wait to see what she has to say. There’s no pain anymore and I don’t feel out of place any more — the leg just doesn’t fire like it used to. So, does that mean I’m making progress? Is it…