Here we are in the last week of Rock Your Core and guess who has not rocked her core nearly enough… This girl. This girl right here. Ah, well, best intentions and all that. I’m linking up with Tara at Running ‘n’ Reading and Erin at Her Heartland Soul with the details of my weekend. Last week started with…
Category: taper
Spring training is in the books!
Do I sound a little bit excited? Maybe it’s because there will be no more Air Supply popping up on random play on my iPod during my runs. (Don’t judge.) Maybe it’s because I survived two days in a row of running for more than 3 hours and lived to tell the tale. Maybe it’s…
The hay is in the barn
Yesterday, I went on my last “long” run. It was 6 miles with 2 extra miles of run/walk. 8.3 miles in 1:32 was not exactly where I thought my training would be at this point, but it ended an almost 30 mile week. Am I happy that my last double digit run was in the…
Who Stole My Sloth?
Yesterday started much like any other Monday. Dragging myself out of bed when the alarm went off. Mainlining coffee to force myself to join the thinking world. Taking the kids to school so I could have a few hours of quiet to recover from the weekend. My only goal – grocery shopping. But then, something…
Is this taper madness?
This has been a really weird “training cycle” for me. I use “training” loosely as I haven’t actually followed a plan. I knew loosely what I wanted to accomplish as far as long runs went, but I was pretty laid back about it. So laid back in fact, that I never really planned things on…