Author: seanv2
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Training Totals 6.13.2010
RECAP: Well, it was bound to happen eventually, a week of fail. It started off with me having a tough time fitting decent runs into my schedule and it ended with me laying on my couch sick as a dog and for the first time in over 100 days, unable to run. I had run…
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Training Totals 6.6.2010
RECAP: Not the world’s best week, people. I came off last week’s marathon excited about how much my running has progressed in the last six months and basically ran right into an injury. Since the marathon, I’ve been having some pain in my left ankle whenever I run, sometimes its pretty bad, sometimes it is…
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Friday Education?
I think I should probably call this weeks video Friday Education instead of Friday inspiration. As I get more serious about running, I am learning more and more about the sport. Learning about effective training means learning about Arthut Lydiard, the running coach who revolutionized distance runner. Check out this video where the Lydiard method…
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The Battle Plan
After consulting the sages at running ahead* I am starting to piece together my plan for running for the rest of the year. In a sentence, what I plan to do is slow down my runs slightly, increase my weekly mileage significantly, and race more. I hope that by doing these three things I can…
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Training Total 5.30.2010
RECAP: Well, I ran a marathon, everything else about this week was in preparation for that and since I wrote a pretty lengthy recap of the race already, we’ll get right to the numbers. Summary Work out streak: 151 days; (221 to go) Run Streak: 103 Days Average Weight – 182 (same as last week)…
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Vermont City Marathon Race Report
The synopsis If for some unknown reason you don’t want to read seven hundred words on my running of the Vermont City Marathon here it is in a sentence. I ran VCM in 4:27:16 smashing my previous marathon PR of 5:45. The Lead Up Ah Vermont, the land of Ben and Jerry’s, beautiful vistas and…
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100 days and a marathon battle plan
100 days I got up this morning, and like I have done every day for the last 100 days, I ran. It was just three miles in a muggy Washington D.C. morning, up the 16th street hill and back down. I didn’t went without headphone and thought about my race this weekend, about the time…
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Training Totals 5.23.2010
RECAP: Man, what a week. Who would have thought that running less would cause so many aches and pains and well… mental instability. I’m going nuts over here! NUTS! I am obsessively checking the weather forecast for Burlington (hot, apparently), I’m visualizing the race as I go to sleep and I am freaking out about…
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Friday Inspiration
I have nothing much planned running wise this weekend. My long run will probably be somewhere between six and eight miles. I plan to sleep a lot and hang out with E. It’ll be nice to not have to dedicate half of saturday to a run… but I am also missing the miles. Does that…
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Taper Madness
Dear Internet, I am going insane. Also everything hurt. I’ve been told that it isn’t uncommon to get all kinds of aches and pains during the taper period, but man, this is ridiculous. My shins have been aching, my foot is aching and, well, I just feel like I am falling apart. I’m getting out…
Milo and the Calf 