No, I’m not quitting blogging. You’ll be hearing from me at least until I finish this crazy five half marathon thing. Where else can I talk about nothing but that and not drive my friends absolutely batty? I’m moving on from coaching. Two years ago I had big plans of creating a new career. I…
Category: training
A hell of a lot of miles
OK, I’ll preface this by saying I know a lot of you run a lot more miles than I do/will. But, holy cow! I sat down tonight and roughed out the minimum miles I’d like to get in between now and my 5in5 races. It’s a very different plan from my typical training. Usually, if…
100 miles?
I’ve been tracking my mileage since July of 2008. That’s when my training for the Marine Corps Marathon began in earnest. From that point until my injury in November of 2010, I ran between 80 and 100 miles almost every single month. Sometimes I was a bit higher and once I was a lot lower,…
From 5k to Marathon (or not)
I’m an adult onset runner. Sure, I used to run around the neighborhood in high school when I wanted to lose weight. And I did lose the “freshman 15” by running the summer after my first year of college. But I was 37 when I ran my first race. In March of 2007, I ran…
Training the Pregnant and Postpartum Client
Yesterday I took Annette Lang’s “Training the Pregnant and Postpartum Client”. Annette was awesome! She really knew her topic and shared both studies and personal experiences with training pregnant clients. I liked that she counseled erring on the side of being too careful. My day started with a little chaos as I dropped my kids…
Happy Fourth!!
Today we got up early and went to the local 4th of July parade. They live in a fairly small town, but the parade was huge and two hours long! Jones and Shoo had a good time. So good, in fact, that Shoo took his first nap in about four days. Later we’ll probably go…