2018 Boston Marathon
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue The 2018 Boston Marathon was going to cap a very long, and stressful training year! Last May, I started building mileage for the
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2018 Boston Marathon – Week 9
It was a tough week! My schedule didn’t have any easy days but I created one by taking Thursday off. My time from the Shamrock Half Marathon on Sunday and interval workout on Friday were both good indicators that I’m
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2018 Shamrock Half Marathon
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue Going into the race, I had been training for the 2018 Boston Marathon since January. After lots of slow running training for the 2018
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2018 San Diego 50 Miler
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue Inspired by the Barkley Marathons documentary and a Marathon Talk episode with Elisabet Barnes describing the Marathon de Sables, I thought I might try
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2017 New York City Marathon
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I started training for the 2017 New York City Marathon in July using a training plan from Advanced Marathoning, Second Edition. My goal was to
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2017 Bourbon Chase
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue (If you’re not familiar with relays, my race report from 2015 Ragnar Cape Cod has a brief description of how they work.) This would
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2017 New York City Marathon – Week 15
It was my final hard training week before tapering for the 2017 New York City Marathon. The Army Ten Miler was disappointing due to the heat. I didn’t plan for the 2017 Bourbon Chase very well and accidentally ran 93
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Training Supplement – August 1, 2017
I did a lot of treadmill running this month. I also traveled to Austin, TX and ran on their Butler Trail. I bought two light-weight tanks for summer running in Washington, D.C. Through a podcast, I got a reminder
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2017 New York City Marathon – Week 3
Despite traveling and very little sleep this week, I got my runs in! I ran a tempo run on Monday and medium runs on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. I did them all on the treadmill due to 80 degree morning
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2017 New York City Marathon – Week 2
I moved my schedule around so I could run long on Friday. That run was a disaster but all things considered it wasn’t a bad week. Training Schedule July 9th – July 15th Sunday: Recovery Run. 6 miles. Monday: Medium-long
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