I'm ready to roll. It's been a great training cycle. The best yet. The most quality and the most miles. But, more importantly, the most fun for me. I can honestly say that out of the 71 runs that I've done in this training cycle, I only felt like skipping maybe one or two. Virtually …
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Grandma’s Training Week #10 Recap
This weekend was filled with Naked Running, grad party (which you KNOW means 3 pieces of cake for Cindi!), and my last long run before Grandma's. It is now officially taper time! (This week was a cut back, but I don't really consider 53 miles tapering compared to what I'm used to!) Chillaxing with the …
267.8 miles!
Finished May this morning with an 8 mile run, which put me at 267.8 miles for the month of May. I haven't gone back and looked through my runningahead log for the 4 years I've been tracking, but I think this month probably ranks right up there as the highest mileage month to date! This …
Marathon pace snuck up on me!
When I was thinking about switching to a different type of training plan for Grandma's and I saw the Advanced Training Plan that was prepared by Dick Beardsley, it struck me that something was missing. Marathon pace runs. It was higher in mileage than I had previously done, and it had more quality workouts each …
Mother’s Day and Grandma’s Training Week #6 recap
Mothers Day today. I am thankful that I started it off with fabulous cards from my kids and then 4 hours of solitude while getting my long run done at Baker. Then when I got back Carter had me crawl back in bed while he made me breakfast (coffee, yogurt parfait and raisin bran with …
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And She Rests.
As you are reading this I am (hopefully!) busy resting. I wrote this post last night and scheduled it to publish at 4:30 a.m., the time I'm normally getting ready to head out for my workout (or starting my workday, so that I can sneak out early and get my workout in). After 2o days …
