June 2016 Running – Week 2
It was a good training week even though I didn’t get much sleep. I flew to San Diego for a friend’s wedding on Friday. I only had two workouts – a tempo run on Wednesday and a half marathon/long run
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2015 California International Marathon
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I’d been chasing sub-3:20 in the marathon since training for the 2012 New York City Marathon. The race was cancelled that year, but I’ve
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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
Continue reading2015 New York City Marathon
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue My first New York City Marathon (NYCM) was supposed to be the 2012 race. It was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy. I had trained
Continue readingCIM Training – Week 14
The week started pretty rough. I was so exhausted after my interval workout on Monday that I stayed home from work to get some rest. I focused on running my easy days very easy and took a lot of speed
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2014 Boston Marathon
This race report was originally posted on the RunningAhead community boards on April 22, 2014. Some content has been edited since that initial publication. Prologue “I think there was a bombing at the Boston Marathon?” I think those were the words that I
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2012 Boston Marathon
This race report was originally posted on the RunningAhead community boards on April 17, 2012. Some content has been edited since that initial publication.
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