Well, here I am, about five weeks out from the marathon at Hyannis, and I found myself over the past week running through all the same mental equations and vacillations I did before Portland – how long should I make my longest long run and when should I start my taper. The books and Web [...]
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Last winter I trained for a half marathon. My longest run was about 13 miles. No problem. Loved the training. So much so that over the summer I trained for a marathon, and became obsessed with the long, long run. Those near mystical two to three hour runs through Southern New Hampshire that carry you [...]
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For my first posterous to blog to Facebook to twitter post via mobile I wanted show off this pic of my cool runner wife modeling her new favorite shirt. “I run like a girl”? Yeah, and? Posted via email from Ernesto Burden
Recovering from this morning’s 19-miler (first five before the sun came up, ugh), with coffee and catching up on a week’s worth of posts from the various running blogs I follow, I noticed a trend: many stories about snow-running related tweaks or recurrences of old injuries, etc. It’s a catch 22 – running on the [...]
Winter Running Gear Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden This is the second year I’ve trained pretty heavily straight through the winter for a February race. Given that a February race in New England is as likely to be cold, windy and snowy as not, I try and train in those conditions as well. [...]
Yesterday’s snowy long run provided two positive results to experiments that I thought worth sharing. First, I found out that if you fill your water bottles up with hot water and wear them inside your shell, they won’t ice up. (They froze solid on me the week before.) Not sure if I made this up [...]
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It’s still snowing. Been doing that since yesterday. And it was about twelve degrees when I woke up at 5:15 this morning. It’s pretty likely that this morning’s long run, training for a winter marathon that or no, would have been in the gym, on a treadmill watching television, if it hadn’t been for the [...]
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I found a blog post by Tim Wilson, a guy who's pursuing a first marathon (and recovering from a shoulder injury right now), who earlier this year gave a shout out to runners who are on Twitter looking to connect up. Great idea. I know I tweet my running quite a bit, and am not [...]
Some good, common sense news from the American Dietetic Assoc.'s annual meeting, including: There's no proof that calories consumed at night make you any fatter than calories consumed at other times of the day. Makes perfect sense. (Of course, if you have less self control at night vegging in front of the tv or sipping [...]
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I swapped my weekend long run from Saturday to Sunday because I wanted to give a tweak in my calf time to finish healing up before I pounded on it for 16 miles. Good plan, except Saturday afternoon just before we left for Mass, I got a call from a good friend who was passing [...]
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