Can it be June already? School’s out as of tomorrow! Summer is flying by and it isn’t even officially here!Here’s how May shook out: Miles run: 108While by no means a high mileage month, I was recovering from Boston afterall (yes it takes that long for this peri-geriatric). I did some of my fastest and [Read More]
Another Nontraining Recap
Wow these weeks fly! Before long I won’t have any nontraining to talk about as I’ll have to fire up the Chicago Marathon cycle. Total Mileage: 21 Monday: Yoga Tuesday: KettleWorx DVD, corework Wednesday: 7 mile tempo run, corework Thursday: SRD Friday: USRD. This was just one of those days. Garmin was literally on and finding [Read More]
Nontraining Recap
Welcome new A-listers! It’s great to have you here!Wow humpday already and I still haven’t shared a workout summary from last week. What is this blog coming to? I’m still running (a little) without a plan. I’m trying to relax and enjoy it since marathon training will be upon me again soon. Here’s how the [Read More]
Training Recap
Wow May already! How’d that happen?Here’s how last week shook out: Miles this week: 19April Miles: 92 Monday: Yoga Tuesday: 4 miles with seven 1 minute pickups. Meh. Corework Wednesday: KettleWorx DVD corework Thursday: SRD Friday: 5 miles in the heat. Was supposed to be a tempo. Let’s just say the tempo was slooow. Corework [Read More]
After The Boston Marathon: Resting Recap!
Week 1 Apres Boston Marathon is complete: 34.6 miles Here’s how the week shook out: Monday: Ran the Boston Marathon well walked too but we won’t talk about that, 26.2 miles. Tuesday: SRD. Just the front of my thighs are tender, really not bad at all. Wednesday: Yoga, corework. Soreness getting better not worse. Hooray! Thursday: [Read More]
30 Days…
10 days have passed since I and lots of my friends boarded the “ark” bound for a goal achieved! That means 30 more days folks! One quick MONTH!!! How’s everybody doing?Jamoosh is on the express route to healing and is throwing in some creative corework too Anne Marie is moving toward a great performance at the Lavaman [Read More]
Stalling
On tap today was my FIRST + Operation Build Endurance 10 miler. But I planned for 8 because it’s a cutback week. And I’m tiiired! Too many body parts to call out one by one are complaining so I’ll just have them all stand up graduation style, recognize them en masse, and hope the aches [Read More]
Training Recap
Boston Training Week 3 is complete! 40 milesHere’s how the week went: Monday: SRD Tuesday: Ladder workout: 1200m, 1000m, 800m, 600m, 400m; yoga class at night. The ladder got ridiculously hard by the time I got into the 800. Thankfully it was almost over by then! Wednesday: FIRST+ 10 miler with BBTN weights afterward Thursday: 7 mile [Read More]
Troubleshooting From the Hips
During the ‘offseason’ I brought my running down to the bare necessities and focused on my poor, neglected core. Because I’ve proven to be pretty much incapable of working out on my own (without someone standing watch, preferably shouting insults) I attended 2 weekly conditioning classes at the gym. I squatted and shuffled my poor [Read More]
Training Recap
Boston Training Week #2 is complete! 39 milesThe week went like this:Monday: SRDTuesday: Yoga class and Speedwork: 800m repeats. These were hard but tame compared to last week’s mile repeats.Wednesday: 10 miles. This is the ‘extra endurance run’ I’ve added to my plan. It was great until about 8 miles, then became somewhat leaden.Thursday: 8 [Read More]
