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Training Diaries

My personal running adventures. Read below to learn about my training and read past race recaps.

Tonight’s Run

Tonight, I had speed work on my training schedule. The warm-up started as soon as my feet hit the pavement just outside my apartment door. Two miles later the first 2-minute interval started. One minute into it, my legs felt like they might collapse. I finished the interval, recovered and started the second one. Half-way through I could tell that these intervals were going to do more harm than … [Read more...] about Tonight’s Run

A Season for Base Training

It's happened. I swore it never would or at least thought I was immune to it, but I'm not. I've been comparing my runs and paces to other people's runs. Left and right other people are setting new personal records while I'm struggling to hit old paces. There have been years in my life when I ran without racing. I didn't care how fast or how far I was running. I just wanted to do it because I … [Read more...] about A Season for Base Training

A New Challenge: New Balance Reach the Beach Relay

Oh... let's see when was the last time I ran a relay race? Middle school, maybe? I don't know, but when you say the word "relay" all I can think is, "Don't drop the baton!" source Relay races which are all the rage right now, aren't something I gave much thought until reading about Susan's adventures at Hood to Coast last summer. Reading her posts made me long for a relay team of my own. A few … [Read more...] about A New Challenge: New Balance Reach the Beach Relay

Going Back For {the} More {Fitness Magazine 1/2 Marathon}

What memories do you have of your worst running race? Did you learn anything from that race? What made that race stand out from other "bad races" that made it your worst? Thanks Jess, for such a positive start to this blog post. If you've ran a number of races you probably have one race that stands out as being "the bad one". My bad run happened on April 25, 2010 at the More/Fitness Magazine … [Read more...] about Going Back For {the} More {Fitness Magazine 1/2 Marathon}

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