NYCM training week 11 is complete. Here’s how it went: Total miles: 38 Monday: Hot vinyasa flow yoga Tuesday: 4 miles Wednesday: 7 miles (10x800m) Thursday: 6.14 trail miles Friday: Rest Saturday: 18.15. It warmed up and this sucked after about 14 but it’s done. Sunday: 3.1 5k with kiddos This was a solid week [Read More]
NYCM Training and Week 2 Reset
Cutback week is complete! Here’s how it went: Monday: Hot vinyasa flow yoga Tuesday: Run 4 miles, upper body strength/core Wednesday: 7 miles, 4@tempo pace. Ouch. Thursday: Bike 20 miles. Lower body strength/core Friday: Run 3 miles. Saturday: Rest Sunday: 12 miles Overall a solid, uneventful week. The low mileage felt odd but good. Week [Read More]
Friday Five
1. Content Scraping. A few weeks ago I started getting pingbacks on every blog post I wrote. When I’d go to the site, I could see nothing. Finally I saw that they were stealing all of my content verbatim, and changing the byline. Thankfully a quick email to the offending website’s host provider put a [Read More]
NYCM Training Week 10
Total Mileage: 55 Monday: Yoga. This hot vinyasa flow class is so darn crowded and yet they continue to allow people to stroll in late and disrupt everyone to move their mats. Why. Just why? Seriously when the door closes and class starts, that’s it…or should be, IMO. Call me the yoga nazi. Tuesday: 4.12, [Read More]
Training and Weekend Racing
Week 8 of NYCM training is complete! I am plugging away. Here’s how it went: Monday: Rest/yoga Tuesday: 9 miles (7x1000m) Wednesday: Lower body strength/core Thursday: 5 miles + upper body strength/core Friday: rest Saturday: 5k hilly Sunday: 11 miles, hilly On Saturday I ran my hometown 5k for the 4th time. Gotta love it [Read More]
August by Number
Miles Run: 123 Miles Biked: 40 Swims: 5 (not to be confused with pool days) Strength Workouts: 9 Yoga: 3 Books: 1. Finally finished The One and Only. Kind of good but not great. I blame my magazine habit for not finishing this sooner. Movies: 1. We saw The Giver over the weekend. Meh. Felt like they were [Read More]
Three Things Thursday + One
1. Back to School. The kids went back yesterday, and, as much as I hate to see summer break come to an end, it needed to be done I guess. The bickering was starting. And too much computer time. 2. Marathon Training. I’m in week 6 of New York City Marathon training. My flight and [Read More]
5 Reasons Your Race Times Are Not Improving
Mail! I get lots of email and questions from runners about why they’re not seeing the race improvement they’d expected from their training. Here are the most common issues I see (besides nutrition and course conditions) that lead to a disappointing race: 1. You do all of your training runs too fast. The first order [Read More]
NYCM Training Week 4
Four weeks of training are in the barn for New York. Here’s how week 4 shook out: Miles Run: 24 Miles Bike: 20 Monday: Rest Tuesday: 8x400m. Strength for legs Wednesday: Bike 20 miles, Upper body strength Thursday: Rest Friday: 6 miles Saturday: Swim Sunday: 12 miles, yoga This was a cutback week with only [Read More]
5 Ways to Speed Workout Recovery
Now that marathon training is in full swing here, I’m taking my running more seriously. The Garmin is back out and charged. So is the fuel belt. I’ve restocked my GU stash. Since I am no spring chicken, one of the things I focus on most, is recovery. It takes longer and longer for the [Read More]
