Category Archives: Training Runs
April is over and …
… my legs are sore! When I wrote out my marathon training schedule, I decided that every other Long Run would be run on trails. Yesterday’s long run was a 15k trail run in Big Basin State Park. Based on … Continue reading
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About my Master Plan…
… if a person goes to all the trouble to design a 5 month training schedule, you’d think she’d actually look at it once in a while. It turns out that my 8 mile long run today was actually supposed … Continue reading
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What was that …
… two wheeled contraption? I should have taken a picture, but I didn’t want to interrupt my long run. I was running along when I saw two people riding toward me on some strange looking bikes. As I got closer … Continue reading
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Feeling motivated … like it’s time to ….
… make a new running schedule. I haven’t had any kind of schedule since my injury last October. And I’ve been running very consistently since reading “Zen and the Art of Running” (i.e., since the week of Feb. 28), so, … Continue reading
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Running with Sam…
My original plan called for a six mile long run alone. The rain didn’t deter me but Sam needed to get out of the house; the seven-year olds were having fun in the bedroom and didn’t want a dog in … Continue reading
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Zen and the Art of Running pt 2
I mentioned in my previous post that I have (indirectly) gotten faster through reading “Zen and the Art of Running”. Thanks to the book, I have been much more flexible about my running which has resulted in more consistency. I’ve … Continue reading
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Zen and the Art of …
– you guessed it – … Running. I had a bad habit of blowing off my scheduled runs. In my mind, my reasons were always sound. In February, I read “Zen and the Art of Running” by Larry Shapiro and … Continue reading
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Sam …
… on the run. I ran yesterday with Sam. We ran/walked/sniffed 2-1/2 miles in about 55 minutes. Clearly that run won’t make it into the log book. My legs are still a little bit sore from Sunday’s run and my … Continue reading
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OMG! My “big race” is less than a month away and …
… I’ve got a sore left foot! Let’s not even talk about the fact that my training hasn’t gone exactly as planned. I haven’t done all the long runs that I intended, though I threw in a couple of marathons … Continue reading
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Back on schedule
I drove to work on Wednesday feeling very confident about getting back to my 50-miler training schedule after Tuesday’s easy little 3 miler. My legs felt fine. When am I scheduled to run next? I thought to myself as I … Continue reading
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