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Let’s talk about speed This has been a great training cycle for me. I feel lean and strong and have no injuries. One of the things I have been doing more of this cycle is speed work. This is an area where my coach and I haven’t always seen eye to eye. He is a …
50 Days to the Boston Marathon Things are getting harder now. Today (Sunday) topped off 2 hardish weeks of running. This week a clean set of 10 Yasso’s on Tuesday and a 1:20 step up on Friday. Today 18 Miles in 2:31 with the middle 14 at target marathon pace -7. I’m tired. I’m thinking …
57 days until the Boston Marathon 17.57 miles, 2:30, 8:33 avg pace. Garmin says about 800 ft of elevation gain and loss. 173.4 Pounds out of bed, 9.9% body fat. (169.8 before getting in the shower after my run – including having rehydrated ~80 oz misc fluids, a banana and 2 apples) Got out with …
61 Days to Boston I screwed it up a bit but not totally. Now I understand what coach was talking about last time I had this workout. My brain does funny things with paces when I’m preoccupied. I’ve been doing this so long you’d think it would be burned in by now. I remember last …
66 days til Boston. 176, 10.3% 8 hours of sleep Happy Friday! Coach gave me a killer Tabatta workout today. I did it but it was crazy hard. A series of 20 second hard effort, 10 second recovery for about 40 minutes. The people in the gym must have thought I was having some sort …
