marathon
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Marathon Training: What I’ve Been Eating
To be honest, I wasn’t sure how well I’d be eating during marathon training. In an ideal world, I’d be eating clean most of the time…but we all know I have a thing for sweets. Thankfully I haven’t gone completely overboard with the bad food and the mentality of “I’m running so much I can eat whatever I want!” I have been eating pretty healthy during the week with some chocolate thrown in for some good measure. post 19-miler pumpkin froyo for the win Pre-Run I try to eat a healthy dinner the night before my long runs. For example, Friday night I ate roasted potatoes from our CSA, some…
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A Long Run in Photos
(Happy Birthday, Melissa!) Where: Lions Park, Niskyauna Bike Path Temperature at start: 27 degrees Miles ran: 14 Average Pace: 10:04 Time: 2:21:01 Running buddies: three awesome girls (Melissa, Valerie & Yulia) Thanks girls for making Saturday’s run awesome! I think it was the best run of marathon training yet! Hoping to recreate it for next weekend’s 20 miler.
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Marathon: One Month Out
Today is October 10. This means that one month from today I’ll be running the Richmond Marathon! I still have the 20 mile long run to do, but after that, it will be time to taper (reducing my mileage until the marathon). To be honest, training for a marathon is not at all as scary as I thought it would be. IT took me two years of running half marathons to finally decide to run a full. I thought training was going to suck. Not really sure why I thought that, since I love training for half marathons! My longer-mid week runs were what I was worried about. They didn’t…
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Weekly Workout Schedule – 10.8.12
Last week’s schedule Monday – Rest Tuesday – 5 mi (depending on ankle) 4 mi Wednesday – 5 mi 5 mi + 1 hr hot yoga Thursday – 5 mi complete Friday – Rest Saturday – 19 mi complete! Sunday – Rest/XT rest/volunteer @ MHR marathon Total Mileage – 33 mi Another successful week of training down! Officially I’m less than five weeks away from the marathon! Next week I’m only running 12 miles (you know you’re training for a marathon when you say “only” 12 miles…) as my long run..then the following weekend is the big 2-0 miler. Workout Schedule for this week Monday – 5 mi + yoga…
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A Run Filled Weekend
What a run-filled weekend! Yesterday Melissa and I got our long run–a scheduled 19 miles for both of us. Fives weeks until the marathon and we’re both in pretty good shape. Thankfully my ankle has been okay since taking a spill at Ragnar. Our run consisted of two nine mile loops plus one mile extra on the first one. Let me say, the second loop was hard. It is a very hilly route that we’ve been training on for the past few months and so far it has been worth it! I tackled the hills pretty good the first loop, but for the second I was getting tired. After hitting…
