As soon as I decided to run the San Francisco Marathon, I knew I’d have to be smart about getting in a few long runs without overdoing it. I’m super prone to IT band flare-ups any time I increase my running volume too fast, and I am determined to [...]
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A 70 mile bike ride is probably not the best way to spend the day before a 10K race, but it obviously worked out OK, because I beat my previous PR by 18 seconds! Saturday morning, I went to a group ride planning on riding about 52 miles. When we [...] This race was such a great one. I ran the 30K last year, but since I have no real interest in running anything longer than 13 right now, I signed up for the half marathon. At the last minute, I decided to run without a Garmin, and I think [...] I ran my first marathon severely undertrained. I was still in college, and I really wanted to call myself a marathoner. I didn’t, however, want to stop going to the bars on Saturday nights (okay, and several other nights) and I also didn’t particularly enjoy heading out for 2+ hours [...] I’m not sure what I was thinking when I wrote this sentence in my goals for 2012: I am going to run a sub-20 5K or die trying. Well, I didn’t do either of those things this year, but the year was not a total loss. I ran two marathons [...] subtitle: maybe someday I’ll learn not to start too fast. It’s now quite comical to me that I signed up for this race right after Big Sur (which at the time was the hardest race of my life) to smash my PR. The running gods TOTALLY had something else in [...] I’ll be running my eighth marathon in 3 days, and I kind of have some goals. Waaaay back when I finished Big Sur (aka the hardest marathon I’ve ever done) I decided my goal for my next marathon was to beat that time by 20 minutes, which would be a [...] Hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving! Are you sick of reading these training recaps yet? Week one of taper was a good one, complete with an unofficial PR! I know it doesn’t really count because it was just a training run, but that’s my fastest 10K ever (by 30 [...] After that lame 25 mile week, I was relieved to be above 50 again this week. My runs were all pretty decent, but by the end of the week I was definitely ready for taper to start. I took no pictures all week, so here’s my dailymile graph. Monday – [...] PEAK WEEK! I broke my weekly mileage record by one mile, and ran 200 miles in a month for the first time. I took two rest days, but I think it really helped me get through 57 miles (which is a lot for me) without too many issues. On Saturday [...] |
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