Happy Sunday! It's time for my weekly recap of training for the Phoenix Marathon; only 11 weeks to go! A running friend asked me if my legs felt totally recovered from the Richmond marathon yet (which was just four weeks ago!) Mentally I feel good and excited to be training, but I'm sure there is still some residual fatigue in my legs. In a period of twelve months, I will Continue Reading
Guest Post: An Injury-Prone Runner’s Path to a Strong Marathon
We runners face a multitude of challenges along each of our running journeys- some nutritional, some physical, some mental. Each challenge can be incredibly frustrating- I know. My running club friend Betsy considers herself to be “injury-prone” and has had her own set of challenges, but she recently set a HUGE PR at the Twin Cities Marathon in 2015. She graciously offered to share her running Continue Reading
Weekly Recap is BACK!
Weekly training recaps are BACK...why? Because I registered for the Phoenix Marathon! Not to be confused with the Rock n Roll marathon that is also in Phoenix, the Phoenix Marathon is a small marathon on Saturday, February 27th. Yay for Saturday marathons! It's also a (mostly) downhill course and hopefully will be my Boston Qualifier opportunity. I have a few running friends who ran it in Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: Post-Marathon
A weekly recap when I'm not training for anything??? Well, I like sharing (obviously- that's why I have a blog!) Even though I'm not running, it felt weird not sitting down for my weekly recap to catch up, so I thought I'd share how I spent this week of recovery post-Richmond <-- catch up on my race recap there if you missed it! Often after a marathon, I schedule a massage, but I Continue Reading
The Day Before the Richmond Marathon!
Tomorrow is the Richmond Marathon, marathon #20 for me! You can check out the full map and list of marathons I have done HERE. Richmond will be my 15th state...Many more marathons to go on my way to 50 states! We arrived in Richmond last night around 10:30 pm EST. We were supposed to arrive much earlier, but our (direct) flight from Minneapolis kept getting delayed for mechanical reasons. This Continue Reading
One Week Until the Richmond Marathon & I Met Wilson Kipsang
Eighteen weeks ago, I told you that I had registered for my 20th marathon, the Anthem Richmond Marathon. That marathon is now less than a week away! I'm excited to toe that starting line again and get a 26.2 mile tour of Richmond, Virginia! Here is how the past week of tapering went: Monday: 8x1000m repeats at a "cruise" pace of 7:40. 2 miles to warm-up with my friend Christie and about 3 Continue Reading
Fitness Fashion Friday: Fashionable Compression Socks
Last Sunday morning, as I relaxed in front of the TV with my morning coffee, watching the live coverage of the New York City marathon, I couldn't help but notice that Meb Keflezighi was wearing compression socks; not very many of the other men in the leader pack were. But guess what? Meb finished seventh at age 40 in his 10th NYC Marathon. His time of 2:13:32 was a national masters record. Continue Reading