2016 Lawyers Have Heart 10K
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue For years, this has been a must do summer race for me. I think this was my 13th Lawyers Have Heart 10K. But, I
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June 2016 Running – Week 1
The week started with a lot of easy running. I’ve been trying to keep the pace truly comfortable. On Wednesday, I ran a workout with mixed success. I finished the week with a surprising time at Lawyers Have Heart considering
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Training Supplement – June 8, 2016
Running is a simple sport, right? All you really need is a pair of shoes (or not) and a stretch of sidewalk, road, track, or trail. Last week, I decided to strip out the stuff that makes running fussy (for
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May 2016 Running – Week 5
This was my first week my Hudson Elite coach! (Although mentally, I’m not officially training for the New York City Marathon until late June.) My coach introduced a little speed work into my schedule with a fartlek run on Tuesday
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May 2016 Running – Week 4
After weeks of cloudy skies, the sun finally appeared on Tuesday. I ran well until Saturday when summer arrived with a vengeance and I wilted in the heat. But the big news of the week was that I’ll be working
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I ran Ragnar Cape Cod last weekend and skipped my weekly update on Saturday. This week, I took the Sunday after Ragnar off. I managed to get out of bed on Monday for a run but wasn’t so lucky on
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2016 Ragnar Cape Cod
Prologue (If you’re not familiar with Ragnar, my race report from last year has a brief description of how it works.) Ragnar Cape Cod is a relay race from Hull, MA to Provincetown (aka “P-Town”). It’s a little under 200
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May 2016 Running – Week 1
Well, hello there! It’s been almost 3 weeks since I ran the Boston Marathon. I’ve been a bit surprised by my recovery from the race. Normally, I allow myself to take as many days off from running as I want
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Spring tends to be a very short season in Washington, D.C. As a morning runner, it seems like we go go from 40-50 degree lows to 60 degrees in about a month! For the handful of swing weeks between winter
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2016 Boston Marathon
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue After completing the 2015 California International Marathon (CIM) in December, I started training for the 2016 Boston Marathon only a month later. This would
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