With NBL meaning “not bloody likely” and DNS defined as “did not start.” Well, now I’m very glad that I didn’t spend the entire winter training to race the New Jersey Marathon. We’re due for a freak heatwave this weekend. Not only was I smart (or just doubtful) enough to defer my entry until 2011, [...]
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I had the rare horrible workout on Tuesday, a revisiting of the rite of passage “on/off” tempo run: 12 miles with the last 8 switching between 7:15 and 8:30 pace. Eek. It was awful. I felt iffy going in but I’ve learned that how I feel often has no bearing on how well I run [...]
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Today: “crapped herself” The madness continues.
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Another light week in terms of mileage. Between the 15K race and then a following week of three workouts, I was feeling a bit beaten up going into this one. My only workout was a revisiting of the half mile repeats on the track I’d done roughly six weeks earlier. It was a screwy session [...]
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For years and years I didn’t remember a whole lot from my childhood. Now I find that something’s been released in my brain lately and I’m finding all kinds of things crammed away in there that I’d forgotten about. The other day was warm enough to open the window in the second bedroom that serves [...]
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I’m racing so often these days that I’m getting sick of writing race reports. Or at least I worry that my race reports are boring. I’ll try to make this interesting. How’s this for an opening gambit: Jonathan was beaten today by a guy with a mullet. He was right in front of me at [...]
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I have one tomorrow. I knew it had been awhile since I last raced one, but I didn’t realize until I looked at my old logs just how long it’s been: nearly four years. It also turns out that I’ve only ever raced three 5Ks. In mid-2006, shortly after I started racing — with a [...]
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Since I’m in a somewhat manic “oh I’ll just change everything” period, I may as well also change how I label these training posts. I realize that since I’m not training for any particular race, saying I’m in “week n” doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. So I’m going to do what the pros [...]
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“photo of girl crap on marathon” Sigh. I wonder what the Googler was going for there. Probably Paula Radcliffe having her famous mid-race squeeze in London, but that’s just a guess. And this one, which for some reason makes me think of Ultraman: “power in my finger” I honestly can’t remember what I did for [...]
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This week I was training myself as my coach continues to struggle with access and computer issues. I didn’t mind. The combination of having worked with him for well over a year and not really training for any goal in particular means it’s been pretty easy for me just to look at old workout schedules [...]
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