#Training

Okay, so last week didn’t exactly go how I would have liked for it to. It was actually an incredibly busy week and my running really suffered. :-/ My Wednesday run was shorter than planned and felt awful thanks to staying late at work for an Out in Tech panel about how social media is helping LGBT youth. There was beer and pizza, so, naturally, I had some. I spent most of my run feeling indigesty and crampy. [Read More]

I actually feel like I had a decent week of running last week. I knocked out 24 miles which is the most I’ve done since the first half of July, but the most important thing is how I’m feeling. Each of my runs felt great and I’ve felt strong. Thursday’s five-miler turned into a 10k because I just didn’t want to stop. I was feeling amazing! And Sunday’s “long” run of eight miles felt unexpectedly awesome. [Read More]

I’m going to make this a short and quick post since there isn’t a ton to share and I’ve got another one coming this morning. Last week was a good week of running. I stepped it back to just the fundamentals, a few short runs at an easy pace with no expectations. I knocked out four four-milers and a six-miler. It’s not a lot of miles, but every run was a complete success. [Read More]

I don’t want to keep beating a dead horse here, so I’m not going to go into much detail about my week of running. I only put in 17 miles, including a pretty rough 5k, and didn’t run the second half of the week. Part of me just didn’t feel like it and the other part felt like if I didn’t try, I couldn’t disappoint myself. I don’t want to push myself to do something that’s not working and isn’t making me happy. [Read More]

Last week, I wrote about how I needed to reevaluate my goals and plans in regards to Erie. I decided I’m likely going to shift my goal race back to Philly in November. In the meantime, I’m still planning on running Erie as a training run, but that could still change as the race gets closer. Making that decision was hard and means having to accept my biggest running goal for 2014 (a BQ for 2015) won’t happen. [Read More]

As far as I can remember, I've never had a Big Mac before, but somehow on Saturday night this happened. Last week was not a good week of training. In fact, it was crap. Total crap. The week was scheduled as a step-back week with 42 miles planned. Unfortunately, this was based on running six-days a week for the previous few weeks, which I haven’t done, so it was only one mile less than I ran the previous two weeks (which should have been 48 miles each, but were only 43). [Read More]

Another week down! For the most part, week six was really a really solid week of training. I’m finally starting to feel like I’m making some progress. Tuesday’s seven miler included a “feels like” temperature of 98°. It was a hot and sweaty run, but my body seems to finally be adjusting to the summer weather because I kicked some serious butt. My paces are still a little slower than I need them to be, but with ten more weeks of training and things feeling like they’re coming together, I can be really happy about an 8:26 in that kind of heat! [Read More]