Going into what feels like my fourth serious training cycle somewhere in my second year of more intense running (as opposed to the 3 mile run 3 times a week habit I maintained for years prior), I’ve noticed a lot of changes about the way I approach running, physically, mentally and in otherwise. One seems [...]
Had a really cool experience during one of the 800 meter intervals in tonight’s track workout with the New Hampshire Athletic Alliance. The workout was two 400 meter intervals, four 800 meter intervals, and two 400 meter intervals (with a mile and a half warmup and a mile and half cooldown run). I’d been hitting [...]
After spending late winter and early spring running light and recovering from the IT band injury I sustained at Hyannis in February, I raced a first race for the season tonight at the Merrimack Rock N Race in Concord. And while I was about 34 seconds off my 5K PR from last November, the beautiful, [...]
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The month since the injury-forced DF at Hyannis has been a necessarily low-mileage one as I rehabbed my IT band. Some weeks as few as six miles, a max of 12, keeping all the individual runs quite short. That was after a year of weekly mileage of between 30-50 miles. So it was no surprise [...]
Continue reading about First club run of the season shows what a month off will do
So I expected running the canyon was going to set back my knee (IT band) recovery, and it did. Was worth it, 100 percent. I ran/hiked a mile and half up the canyon on a two or three foot deep snow pack covered with grainy corn snow and a layer of slush, having to actually use [...]
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When I met Bill Rodgers at the expo the day before the Hyannis Marathon, he signed a poster for me and asked a few questions about my race plans, including, “which one are you running?” When I told him the marathon he looked at me very seriously, unsmiling, and said something along the lines of, [...]
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Kris, Isobel and I are here in Hyannis the night before the marathon. (The older kids are at their MMs for the night.) We got into town early in the afternoon and hit the race expo, where I got to meet (briefly) Bill Rodgers and Frank Shorter and grab their autographs. Bill Rodgers even took [...]
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Did my long run with a friend a few Saturday mornings ago. He’s also tapering for an upcoming marathon, and about half-way through the run, he asked, “you ever have psychological trouble with tapering?” I answered without thinking. “Last time, yeah, it was hard to bring myself to ease up on the miles without being [...]
Since Kris is now napping on the couch in front of the wood stove, I get to write the first blog post about her first half marathon (though I won’t steal her fire by retelling too many of the stories – just wanted to post some of these pictures). She finished the 13.1 miles of [...]
A friend wrote on my Facebook wall today, “I’m totally burnt out on running…can’t get the motivation! HELP!” That got me thinking. I’ve been feeling burned out this winter as I train for Hyannis. How am I staying motivated to keep up my running schedule, despite horrible weather, grim road conditions and plenty of tweaks and [...]
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