Tag: marathon training
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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…
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Training Totals: 5.16.2010
RECAP: The taper for my spring marathon has begun, and so far, so good. A Saturday long run of twelve miles is a heck of a lot more reasonable than a 22 miler. It was nice to feel like I could have handled more. Weight stayed constant this week, which is a little bit of…
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Training Totals 5.9.2010
RECAP: 48 miles is a lot of running. Its Tuesday and I am still exhausted. But now its taper time and man am I looking forward to it. Saturday’s long run started off great, for the first fifteen miles or so, I felt strong and fast. I Rahm Emanuel, I kept a good pace and…
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Training Totals 5.2.2010
RECAP: Not every week can be great. Sometimes, the body just needs a break, and this week was one of those weeks. Even though I decided to cut my long run down from 18 to 15 miles, I still feel ok about this week. My left foot which was giving me a lot of trouble…
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Friday Inspiration: Pre
This hasn’t been the best week running wise for me. I’m battling this bruising in my foot, plus a cold. All around, not great. But I’m still getting in some of the mile, and I still have a 18 mile long run planned for this weekend. We’ll see how this goes. To get me pumped,…
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Training Totals 4.25.10
RECAP: 41.5 miles. Over six hours on my feet. That, my friends, is a lot of running. The goal for the week was 43 miles, but life got in the way (wedding venues!) and I had to cut the Saturday run really short. Whatever, I’m still proud. This is the most miles I have ever…
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Training Totals
RECAP: I think I need to face up to the fact that for right now, as long as I am getting in my scheduled runs, I should really be too upset about not hitting my total workout time goals. Work is busy, I travel every weekend, and really, all that is important to me right…
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Training Totals: 5.11.2010
RECAP: I guess it is a good sign if what I am disappointed about in a week is not that I didn’t get my runs in, but that I didn’t feel good on (some) of the runs. I think packing more miles onto my long run week after week has finally caught up with me…
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Training Totals: 4.4.10
RECAP: Well, life got the better of me this week. I was in New York for Passover for part of the week and then in Connecticut for Easter for the other part (I’m in an interfaith relationship, the spring gets complicated). I made my running goals for the week, but little else, and fell far…
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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 