Brooks post!
For those that haven’t seen it, my first guest blog for Brooks!
http://talk.brooksrunning.com/2012/10/09/guest-post-how-i-found-my-speed-later-in-life/
For those that haven’t seen it, my first guest blog for Brooks!
http://talk.brooksrunning.com/2012/10/09/guest-post-how-i-found-my-speed-later-in-life/
I’ve been pretty lucky this summer with weather. I think this is the first weekend that has made for difficult training. Today’s workout was brutal. 20 miles with 10 at marathon pace. The first 10 were great – 7:45-8:00 pace is nice!!. I picked up Lis, one of the skiers that was having boot trouble…
I went in Wednesday night to get adjusted. I went up to Motion Care in Shoreview (quite a drive from Red Wing!). I’ve gone to them before and they’re phenomenal. Kelly taught me how to do a lot at home as well. That’s one thing I really like about this clinic. They’re not all about…
I knew today’s 19 miler was going to be a bear. Brian agreed to meet me at Anytime Fitness to work together on it. SOOO thankful for the help! He was nice enough to forgo his 6am start for my 12:30-1:00 start (post church and post small meal). Yeah! Workout was a marathon simulation of…
Anyone know how to treat this QUICKLY? It came on Thursday after a hard/long Wednesday evening run. I’ve never had Achilles trouble before, so I’m a little perplexed that it came on so quickly and has been so bad. Generally it feels bruised/tight when walking around. Running on it Thursday it had a burning sensation….
Less than 2 weeks to go to Chicago, 5 weeks to NYC. I did my last long run (22) two weeks out from the marathon, more for the mental boost I’d get from having another “20+er” in the bank. For some reason, I don’t feel as confident about having put in the long sustained runs….
if I didn’t spend as much time as I do on running and skiing. This week has been really nice — taking the first half of the week off and then running whenever I felt like it/however far I felt like during the 2nd half. It’s great! I actually have time to run errands and…