Last year after finishing the Boston and Vermont City marathons with only a six week stretch between them, I decided to skip the fall marathon, focus on speed and see if that focus could improve a 2011 marathon time. On April 16, I ran the the Gansett Marathon, my sixth overall, and my first and [...]
My (otherwise excellent) Advanced Marathoning training book gives this advice for taper week: “If at all possible, during the last week before the marathon, reduce not just your training but also the amount of stress in your life.” It goes on to recommend, “Avoid having major deadlines at work or other energy-draining undertakings.” Ha. In [...]
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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 [...]
There are mornings when you don't even feel like you can jog – much less run intervals. That was what I felt like when the alarm went off at 5:30 today. And what I felt like while I was lacing up my shoes, pounding a shot of coffee, eating a slice of bread with peanut [...]
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