Monday: Rest Tuesday: 6 Trail miles Wednesday: 5 miles Thursday: Strength + Swim Friday: Run 10 miles Saturday: Strength/core Sunday: Rest Could the landscape be more grey? It was another one of those super gray, foggy, but mild weeks that seems to be this season’s theme. Kids went back to school. It was time. Although it’s [Read More]
A Festive Weekly Wrap
Total Miles: 14 Monday: Rest Tuesday: 6 miles Wednesday: Yoga Thursday: Strength and Swim Friday: Friday 5 trail miles Saturday: Rest Sunday Strength, Swim, Underground Polar Express 5k These “off-season” weeks are flying. Workout wise, the week was uneventful. Swimming is meh like always. I’m enjoying strength like always, except I’m amazed how busy my [Read More]
Thanksgiving: It’s a Wrap
Before we get to Thanksgiving stuff, here’s how last week’s workouts went: Monday: Rest Tuesday: Run 6 miles Wednesday: Yoga Thursday: Turkey Trot 4 miles Friday: Swim Saturday: Run 6 miles Sunday: Strength & Swim I’ve officially shifted my focus from running to lifting heavy and yes, swimming. So far the swim is kind of sucking [Read More]
Things to Do in the Running “Off Season”
Although I still have a few races left on the calendar this year, my running “off-season” started the minute I crossed the finish line in Twin Cities. Since then I’ve been running less, enjoying more. Not that running isn’t enjoyable or anything, it’s the marathon training that tends to wear on me after awhile. Studies [Read More]
Then There Were Two
Two more weeks of taper before the Twin Cities Marathon. I can’t lie, this first week in taper town agreed with me. Here’s how it went: Total Miles: 25 Monday: Rest Tuesday: 8x800m, lower body strength Wednesday: Yoga, upper body strength Thursday: 5 miles Friday: Plyometric intervals Saturday: Rest Sunday: 5k + 10 miles There [Read More]
Weekend Rewind: Attack of the Brown GU
This was my last big marathon training week before the taper for Twin Cities. Total Miles: 37 Monday: Rest Tuesday: Speedwork 12x400m and lower body strength Wednesday: Yoga, upper body strength Thursday: 8 MP Miles in a downpour Friday: Rest Saturday: 22.12 miles Sunday: Strength We kicked off the weekend with high school football for [Read More]
5 Benefits of Heart Rate Training
Let’s talk about heart rate training. This is something I knew about but never really bothered with. I ran by feel. I also often went out way too fast in races and struggled miserably in heat. This summer has been different. Why? Because I’ve been wearing a heart rate monitor. I have my triathlon coach [Read More]
Marathon Training, Sinkholes and Wasps in the Attic
Total Mileage: 34 miles run, 2 miles swim Monday: Yoga Tuesday: Run 6 miles with 3 miles @tempo pace, Swim 800m Wednesday: Strength & Core, Swim 800m Thursday: Run 8 miles. Speedwork 2(6x400m), Swim 800m Friday: Run 2 miles, Plyometric intervals, upper body strength, swim 800m Saturday: Rest Sunday: Run 17 miles Running this week went well. [Read More]
Excuse-Proof Your Workouts
It’s been a tough summer. As a running coach, I hear all kinds of excuses. Races are fun. There’s music, cheering spectators, food and swag. We get to go on Facebook and Instagram with our finish line shots. Training? Not so much fun. You often have to get up before the sun to get [Read More]
Thinking Out Loud: Face-in-Lake Edition
OWS. That’s open water swim in case you wondered. I finally did my first one yesterday. My tri coach took me to a sweet baby lake, but in my head might as well have been an angry surf off the coast of Kona. We squeezed into our wetsuits and went for it. The sandy bottom [Read More]
