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Training Update

Training Lately

February 25, 2018 By Nichole Porath 2 Comments

February training has had its ups and downs, that's for sure. Downs: St. Olaf Indoor 5k in 19:50, 3rd (last) place: In hindsight, this was the best thing to happen to me. During the race, and immediately after, I was ashamed and embarrassed. Why? After about 1/2 way through ...

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Getting Real

December 29, 2017 By Nichole Porath 5 Comments

I was super nervous for the workout I was about to do. I wasn't sure why. It's not like this was my first workout, or even first workout on an indoor track... but, it was the first workout where Jerry had written goal times similar to what I ran pre-Trials. I explained to ...

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Indoor Track Workouts

December 16, 2017 By Nichole Porath Leave a Comment

Jerry and I decided to take the majority of December to focus on hitting my VO2 times and also speeding up for 200m and 300m workouts. If you remember, at the start of December I had hit a rough patch in training; I was sick with the flu and then a sinus infection, a few ...

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18:00 at the Marshall Gobble Wobble

November 28, 2017 By Nichole Porath Leave a Comment

... for a 3 mile "5k". Definitely not what I was hoping for, but a good trial nonetheless. At the start. No one wanted to step to the front of the line. Nathan in blue on the left, me in the gray T-shirt, and Leigh in the light gray shirt to my right. Smiles all around! I ...

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Rough week leading into the Gobble Wobble

November 22, 2017 By Nichole Porath 1 Comment

I've had a rough week and a half training-wise. Life-wise, things have been great! Read on for more: Training: After a good week of training, 65 miles on 6 days and two workouts (including an epic 8 miles at tempo-ish workout ), I really struggled the following week. It ...

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Training Lately – and Goals

November 13, 2017 By Nichole Porath 1 Comment

With each week that has passed since TCM, I've become a little more excited about the upcoming race season. I've also had a couple of good workouts, which fuels excitement. Nothing amazing, but I'm moving in the right direction. My first 1k workout after TCM (10/17) was decent, ...

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