The title says it all, after 11 years of dreaming and thinking it wasn’t possible… I ran a marathon! The morning started out like any other race, leaving the house a little later than I’d hoping, not finding parking near by, walking quickly through 10 blocks in the dark to find my starting point. This [...]
In the week leading up to my marathon I was a mess! First of all I found that I don’t really eat carbs. I know trying to stuff yourself full of as many carbs as possible sounds like a dream, but to me I would be much happier eating as much meat and dairy as [...]
I was pretty sore from Hood to Coast and definitely had to work a bit more in my runs on Tuesday and Thursday this week. Specifically my hip flexor (which I pulled in my first leg of H2C) and next to my achilles tendon were really hurting. I could deal with the pulled muscle, but [...]
Surprise! I got on to a Hood to Coast team on Tuesday… the race is Friday! Needless to say I didn’t have much time to shop and plan for the big event, but after getting a checklist from the team captain and reading a bunch of blogs here is the list of what I took along [...]
Finally I feel like I’m back. I won’t lie and say I didn’t spend all week dreading the thought of running 17 miles or in other words, 3 hours of running non stop. This week I was feeling strong, but not really enjoying the run. Getting to the point where the idea of *having* to [...]
This was the week where my training and motivation finally imploded. We had house guests arrive from out of town on Saturday night. We frantically prepared the house the day of because we really wanted things to be perfect for them (first visit to America from Italy!). Unfortunately for all of us their first full [...]
I made a stupid error this week, I ran too fast. I never thought I would have a problem with this, considering I always have just one speed, but in this training I must be getting stronger and it is allowing me to go faster. I really need to find a way to keep this [...]
This week was brutal, mainly because it was a rough recovery from Saturday’s 14 mile run. I was so sore! Strangely it was just my calves, but it was my WHOLE calf from knee to ankle and ALL the way around. They were so so tight and with every step it felt like someone was [...]
The major highlight of this week is of course the 14 mile run on the schedule which is the farthest I have ever run! To date I’ve “only” done a 13.1 mile run in the half marathons I’ve done. I felt like I was going to die after all of them, so needless to say [...]
I’ve been reading more and more running blogs lately and really enjoying the stream-of-thought style run posts. Thought I’d try one out on my Tuesday morning run. With my running buddy out of town and not being able to find my headphones I was stuck with myself and my random thoughts. This is the beginning [...]
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