Category: Marathon Autoposy
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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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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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Marathon Autopsy: The Training
In 2005, I ran my first and (so far) only marathon, the New York City Marathon. It was a total disaster. I was undertrained and suffered serious gastrointestinal issues on the course. I finished in an extremely disappointing five hours and forty five minutes. Now, as I am deep into the training for my next…
Milo and the Calf 