Before I get into weekend brain surgery, I mean festivities, here’s how the week panned out workout-wise: Monday: Spin class, upper body weights Tuesday: 6 mile run 2x1200m, 4x800m, lower body weights Wednesday: Yoga Thursday: Run 7 miles, 4@tempo pace, corework. This sucked. Legs were dead. Not sure why. Friday: Run 2 miles, total body [Read More]
October Rehash
Miles Running: 39 (yes a measly 13 miles run pre-marathon) Pool Running: 1.5 hours Bike: 82 Races: Zooma Great Lakes 5k Marine Corps Marathon Shame Inducing Guilty Pleasure: Cupcakes: The fuel of champions. Shameless Pleasure: These Nairn’s Oat Cookies showed up on my doorstep, all the way from Scotland I think. Love me some Scotland [Read More]
Marine Corps Marathon: Race Report
Expo Friday Mega security getting in the DC Armory. Crowded, loud and hot. Selection was good but not great. Needed more drinks! Thing 2 was enamored with the Flying Pig Marathon medal. Touring Saturday Toured the White House (holy wow) Flopped down on a double decker tour bus and saw the sights with as little [Read More]
Post MCM: Home, Alive and Well
Thanks everyone for your concern and good wishes! Our Monday night flight out of Washington DC was cancelled for obvious reasons so, after finishing MCM Sunday, we got out of dodge by car, finally arriving home yesterday evening. The race was an incredible experience I will attempt to put into words as soon as I [Read More]
5 Coping Strategies for Inadequate Race Training
My over-dramatization of the impending Marine Corps Marathon is on the downswing. It’s been almost 24 hours now since the last (hopefully final, but no guarantee) crying jag. I went to one final spin class yesterday and our previously demeaning instructor seems to have gotten the memo and was much more encouraging–she went so far [Read More]
Exorcising Marathon Demons
I thought I was handling this whole pre-marathon injury fiasco fairly well until I found myself in tears in the middle of a spin class the other day. I think it’s part of the process of letting go. Of grieving the loss of the marathon I might have run had things been different. Ok so [Read More]
Runfession
What do you do when you have an injury that just won’t quit? Last fall I took a DNS at not one but two fall marathons. Fast forward to this year: My strained tensor fascia seemed to be healing up nicely: 9/16: I celebrated a pain-free 16 mile long run 9/22: I ran a slow but [Read More]
2 Steps Forward…
…and yes, one step back. Last week after Rock n Roll Denver was going so well… My mile repeats were stellar once I got back to oxygenated air. I ran an unusually strong 10+ miles at marathon pace (whatever that is) on Thursday. On Saturday I set out for my long run. I planned on [Read More]
Secrets of Running Badassery Revealed
I got an email the other day: Marcia blah blah, …..You are such a badass runner, blah blah… how do you maintain that mindset through training and racing? This is some kind of a joke right? Mom, is that you? I’d swear it was if my mom emailed. I think I got my technophobe gene [Read More]
