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Weekly Recap: Three Weeks Until Grandma’s Marathon 2016

May 30, 2016 By Jessie Benson 6 Comments

Grandma's Marathon 2016 is 3 weeks away. Can you believe that June 18th is creeping up on us so quickly? Can't wait! Here's how my training went last week: Monday: 7 easy morning miles with two friends. 1 hour barre class at The Barre in the evening. Tuesday: 2 mile warm up, 5 x 1k repeats with 2 minute recovery, 2 mile cool down. My goal pace for the 1k repeats was 5k race pace, or Continue Reading

Weekly Recap and Lots of Vizsla Pictures!

May 17, 2016 By Jessie Benson 7 Comments

Last week was a big week of training for Grandma's Marathon 2016! Here's how it went: Monday: Morning run: 2 mile warm-up, 8x300m sprints with 90 second recovery, 2 mile cool down. I was supposed to do the 300m sprints at a 6:55 pace. Considering my goal for the TC 1 Mile was a 6:30 min/mile and 300m is much shorter than a mile, this seemed doable, but at 6 am, it felt pretty hard and I often Continue Reading

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