Hi all! I'm here as usual with my weekly recap. This week? Race week! I’ll be honest, I was forecast stalking all week. I have three different weather apps on my phone: Dark Sky, Weather Channel, and AccuWeather. I knew it was going to be a warm day, but I was hoping that it might rain on us to keep us cool...Spoiler alert: it was a hot and humid one in Duluth! Since I wasn’t racing the Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 1 Week Until Grandma’s Marathon
This post should really be named "how to deal with IT band syndrome," as I feel like that was the focus of my week! (Actually, that's not a bad idea for a post...stay tuned!) Monday: Rest from running. Barre class after work at Pure Barre. I usually don't go to Pure Barre; it's not that I don't like it, but the Barre Edina is more convenient and I like their classes just a little bit more (they Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: Two Weeks Until Grandma’s Marathon 2017
Two weeks until Grandma's Marathon! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the weather is much cooler in Duluth...I love this summer weather, but not for running! Here's a recap of how this past week went: Monday: We were still in California. I took this as a rest day. Tuesday: Our flight landed around 3 pm, so I did my run around 4 pm. My legs were heavy from traveling, my IT band was Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: Three Weeks Until Grandma’s Marathon
Three weeks until Grandma’s Marathon... If you’re catching up, I trained hard for the Boston Marathon 6 weeks ago and am now getting ready to pace my sister Erin in Duluth in a few weeks. Her goal is a 4:15, or a 9:40-9:45 min/mile. My recovery since Boston hasn’t been awesome- between a concussion that kept me out of running for a week and now being plagued by some annoying aches and Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: Four Weeks Until Grandma’s Marathon with my Sister!
Happy Sunday! I'm here with my weekly recap and happy to share that I'm feeling a lot more normal again, (post-concussion, etc). This week was pretty solid in training, here's how it went; Monday: [solidcore] Tuesday: 4 hot (upper 80's!) miles with Matilda after work. Wednesday: 7.5 miles after work. Around mile 6.5, it started to get really dark and windy. I tried to pick up the pace to Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: Easing Back into Running…
After last week's little health scare (if you missed it, I fainted in the shower and took quite a fall), I had to take it easy for a few days- doctor's orders. I'm also dealing with some new (unrelated to the fall) aches and pains in my left leg; I'll definitely be going to Orthology this week for some soft tissue work. With that said, I still was able to run & workout a bit this week, but Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: A Scary End to the Week.
I'm supposed to be limiting my time on electronics this weekend (I'll explain at the end of this post) but fortunately I had written most of this recap Friday to get a head start. I'll keep it short and sweet, I promise! Here's my weekly recap of training to run Grandma's Marathon with my sister Erin on June 17: Monday: I woke up to snow/rain mix, so I decided to save my run until after work. Continue Reading