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2019 New York City Marathon Infographic - Week 6

2019 New York City Marathon – Week 6

Running 28 miles over the weekend left me exhausted by Monday night and I slept for 9 hours! My weekday runs were good, but not great, which was confirmation that my body needed recovery.  But, I finished my 20 mile long run on Saturday feeling marathon-ready!

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Hansons Marathon Method

My 2019 Boston Marathon Training Plan

The 2019 Boston Marathon is on Monday, April 15th. For this training cycle, I chose the “Advanced” plan from Hansons Marathon Method by Luke Humphrey as my foundation. The schedule is 18 weeks, which made my start date December 10th.

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New York City Marathon Medals - 2018

My 2018 New York City Marathon Training Plan

If it’s July, I’m starting to train for the New York City Marathon!  This will be my sixth consecutive year participating in the event, which is consistently the highlight of my running year.  Everything about this race is big!  It

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Running Your First Ultra and Advanced Marathoning

My 2018 San Diego 50 Training Plan

Preface Over the years, people have asked me if I’d ever run an ultra-marathon.  I always answered with some variation of, “Absolutely not!”  My thinking began to change last fall when I watched a documentary on the Barkley Marathons. Even

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2012-2016 NYCM Medals

My 2017 New York City Marathon Training Plan

The New York City Marathon is my favorite marathon.  Making my way through all five boroughs of the city with 50,000 of my fellow runners and thousands of amazingly supportive New Yorkers has been absolutely thrilling! If everything goes as

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My 2017 Eugene Marathon Training Plan

Introduction I’m planning to run the 2017 Eugene Marathon on May 7, 2017.  I chose this race because from what I’ve read it’s a) fairly flat, b) in a city I’d like to visit, and c) it finishes on Hayward

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NYCM Week 12 Infographic

2016 New York City Marathon Training – Week 12

After the Parks Half Marathon on Sunday, I switched directions with my training this week and left my coach!  For the rest of the week, I eased into doing more endurance runs with some strides. Training Schedule September 11th –

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NYCM Week 10 Inforgraphic

2016 New York City Marathon Training – Week 10

This may be one of my shortest training posts I’ve ever done because I only had one workout this week. Last Saturday’s long run took so much out of me that my coach assigned easy running for the other days.

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