May 2016 Running – Week 3
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
Continue readingRunning Clothes & Gear – Spring 2016 Edition
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 Training – Week 10
Confident in my endurance when Sunday’s long run wasn’t completely miserable, I started layering faster miles into my workouts this week. I’ve been trying to go to bed earlier to get more sleep and that seemed to help my training.
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2016 Boston Marathon Training – Week 8
I thought endurance was missing in my last marathon cycle so I’ve been trying to run long and slow for my long runs. I started the week with a 22 miler and mid-week ran 14 miler. But, this was a
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2016 Boston Marathon Training – Week 7
I started the week with an absolutely brutal long run through a lot of snow packed rail-trails and ended the week with a hill repeat workout on dead legs. Yay! During both, I reminded myself I’m a Boston Marathoner and
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2016 Boston Marathon Training – Week 1
I’m baaaack! I started training for the 2016 Boston Marathon this week. I took 5 days completely off after the California International Marathon (CIM). My rule is to take as many days off from running as I want. I like
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CIM Training – Week 19
The race is less than 24 hours away! My final taper week went well. As usual, I felt slow and sluggish; existing pains seemed worse and new pains came and went out of no where. I arrived in Sacramento yesterday
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2015 Boston Marathon
Training I did a modified Pfitzinger Advanced Marathoning, 18 week/85 miles a week plan. However, my goal race for the spring was RnR DC. After that race, I took three days off and then started training again. Unfortunately, about a
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