My sister has been visiting from Denver, Colorado for the past month. Since my job is very portable now (I just need a road and a laptop!), I was able to spend some quality time with my parents, my sis, and her two adorable daughters. My sister and I have never been that close. In…
I always look forward to tapering. Until it actually comes… I looked at my training plan for the next week and realized just how little there is on it… 8 mile run tomorrow, 8 miles Monday with a tiny bit of uptempo work in it, and then practically nothing until race day. It’s sort of…
Wow — wouldn’t have guessed I could run sub 29:30, at all! I made a bet with Nate the night before: 15 minutes massage if I ran sub 30:00. His personal best is a 30:04, and my personal best before today was a 30:34. So, 29:59 seemed like a reasonable goal. My legs didn’t feel…
Great week (weather aside :)! I’m back and healthy and have had some really great workouts. On Sunday I tried my first marathon pace workout inside of a long run. I did 20 miles total, 7 as a “warm up” (7:30 pace), then 12 at marathon pace (6:50), then a mile “shuffle” as a cool…
What a breakthrough week for me. 1 minute last Sunday. 11 minutes this Sunday. YES. The first 5 minutes didn’t feel great. Residual pain (not sharp, like before) with most steps. I stretched for a while afterwards. Then decided to run for another minute or two to see how it felt after stretching. It actually…
I have talked before about how working with a sports psychologist made a huge difference in my race at Grandma’s. Dr. Asp in Red Wing is that psychologist, and the Red Wing newspaper recently did an article about him working with runners. It is mostly about his work with the high school team, but I…