October 2011
13 posts
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Week In Review: Oct 24 - 30
This is my weekly training journal. Including it in the blog gives me a little extra accountability in the mileage department & helps me stick to my schedule. :)
2 Weeks to Clarksburg Half Marathon
5 Weeks to Cal International Marathon
Well, here we are — Tapersville; population moi. That’s the one disadvantage of doing the half and the full three weeks apart. I need two...
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Week In Review: Oct 17 - 23
This is my weekly training journal. Including it in the blog gives me a little extra accountability in the mileage department & helps me stick to my schedule. :)
3 Weeks to Clarksburg Half Marathon
6 Weeks to Cal International Marathon
Double eek!!!
This was not the week I was hoping for, less than a month out from Clarksburg. I had several days where my calf and tendon injuries were...
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My Current Gear Crushes
Friends, I am loving Pinterest.
After establishing a board for Clothes, Shoes, Food Porn, Dessert Porn, Beverages, Places to Visit, and Full Of Win (oh, and also Worst of Pinterest…someone had to do it), I of course created one called Running Gear. My Running Gear board is full of stuff that I would totally buy tomorrow if I won the lottery, or whatever is the equivalent of winning the...
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Marathon Training, Week 7: In which I Feel Crappy,...
Quick sidenote — Did you know that you can sign up to test out running shoes for different companies? I didn’t until just a couple of months ago. If you trawl around their websites a bit, most of them have a link to an application where you enter some basic information about yourself (height / weight, shoe size & type, what sports / distance you do, average weekly mileage) &...
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Week In Review: Oct 10 - 16
This is my weekly training journal. Including it in the blog gives me a little extra accountability in the mileage department & helps me stick to my schedule. :)
4 Weeks to Clarksburg Half Marathon
7 Weeks to Cal International Marathon
I’m trying to keep my cool as those numbers continue to fall. Physically, I think I’m almost ready to run a sub-1:40 half, if I can muster...
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BIONIC!
So my orthotics finally arrived, and not a moment too soon.
In case you’ve missed all the excitement (by which I mean “excitement”), here’s a brief recap of what’s been going on around here:
I have a moderate case of MTSS that is most likely caused by over-pronation that isn’t being corrected sufficiently by stability shoes & semi-custom orthotics.
A few...
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Racing Weight
So, I’ve very specifically avoided talking about weight on my running blog for a few reasons:
I know several people who got into running because they were obsessed with losing weight and staying extra-skinny. I’m not talking about folks who were like, “You know, I’d like to be fitter / more active,” or “I’m not in great shape & it’d be nice to...
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Week In Review: Oct 3 - 9
This is my weekly training journal. Including it in the blog gives me a little extra accountability in the mileage department & helps me stick to my schedule. :)
5 Weeks [1 month & 1 week] to Clarksburg Half Marathon
8 Weeks [2 months-ish] to Cal International Marathon
EEK! Somehow translating weeks into months is not having the calming effect I had hoped it would.
Sigh. So this...
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The Long Run (Part 2: The Mental)
Ugh. So it’s day five of no running for me. I’ve had some pretty exquisite pain in the lateral parts of my calf muscles that a) makes even walking pretty painful and b) is not getting any better, even after many days of rest. It’s frustrating because I don’t know what’s wrong or what to do (other than nothing) to fix it. But anyway, more on that later.
A few weeks...
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Kind of a Real Post. Sort of. Not Really.
I am writing a post today not because I have anything interesting to talk about, but because I am frustrated & looking to take out my frustration on someone/thing. Currently the closest one/thing is the internet so there you are.
I had a great week of running last week, and even a great (well, mostly) Tuesday track run this week. But since then, I haven’t been able to run at all. Not...
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The Most Disturbing Thing I've Ever Seen at the...
This is probably the most serious post I’ve ever written. I’m still a bit shaken, not to mention sick to my stomach, as I’m writing it.
Tuesdays are speed days for me so I went out to Kezar Stadium to run 8 x 800s. I had a really fantastic workout in spite of only taking one day off after my epic 16 miler and a few lingering pains here & there. All of that seems totally...
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Week In Review: Sept 26 - Oct 2
This is my weekly training journal. Including it in the blog gives me a little extra accountability in the mileage department & helps me stick to my schedule. :)
6 Weeks to Clarksburg Half Marathon
9 Weeks to Cal International Marathon
If you are running either of those races, do those numbers seem to be getting just a tad small to you? I seemed to recall giving myself a few good,...
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The Last 16
Perhaps the most notable feature of the [Hanson-Brooks marathon plan] is the absence of a sacred cow—the 20-plus-mile long run. For non-elite runners, the long effort tops out at 16 miles. “People say, ‘How can a long run be only 16 miles?’” says Kevin [Hanson]. “Then they’ll finish that run and say, ‘Gosh, I don’t think I could run another 10...
