Tag: marathon training
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The Long Run: A Parkway and Two Bridges
The first in a series recounting my long run adventures. I have run over 1600 miles in Prospect Park, much of it on the 3.3 mile main loop of the park. It has, as you might imagine, gotten a little boring. In an attempt to branch out, see more of the city by foot, and…
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Track Work-Out
I ran my first track workout last night at the Red Hook track. The track itself is in remarkably good condition considering it is open to the public at all hours and located deep in Red Hook. It is surrounded by warehouses and the BQE overpass and heavily used by serious and casual runners. When…
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Training Totals Week Ending 7-24-2011
RECAP: People, it is goddamn hot out there. Temps have been around a hundred since Thursday and that has hurt my running something serious. I did get out there everyday, but I fell really short of my weekly goal of 55 miles. This coming week will be a different story though, I guarantee it. Yesterday…
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Training Totals 6.19.2011
RECAP: After some illness and a week from hell, I got back in the groove this week running 46 miles in around seven hours. Toughest run was definitely the 15 miler on Saturday. It was hot out there and I just wasn’t feeling all that great. I averaged a depressing ten minutes per mile, including…
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Training Totals Week Ending 4/3/2011
RECAP: This is the second week in a row over forty miles, this time with only five days of running. My legs are exhausted, but I feel good about the progress. Also for the second week in a row I took a rest day. I am not sure how much longer I’ll be taking a…
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Training Totals 7.4.2010
RECAP: Wow, what a week. The first part of it was a whirlwind of work and other commitments as I tried to get everything set before I went to Cape Cod for the Fourth of July. The second half was all running, drinking beer and laying on the beach. I haven’t had a vacation in…
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Training Totals 6.27.2010
RECAP: Another week of running disappointment. Again, I started off strong and ended weak. I am getting in really good runs during the week when all I have to do is work and run, but the weekends, which have been a series of massive social commitments have foiled my plans to return to a decent…
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Training Totals 6.20.2010
RECAP: This week started off well enough and then fizzled in the face of massive scheduling conflicts and hotter than hell weather. On the plus side, I have really been extending my weekday runs, which is going well. Many days this week I got in more than six miles, and on Wednesday I really started…
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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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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…
Milo and the Calf 