Just a quickie post, and one without a visual of the week’s training. My training log is on Jonathan’s computer, which is two states to the east in a house that has no power, thanks to Hurricane Irene. It was a nothing week for training anyway. I probably ran in the neighborhood of 20 miles [...]
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Lots of variety this week. The highlights included a speed session Tuesday that went eerily well. Like “10-15 seconds per mile faster than the previous try at this workout” well. Then on Thursday I ripped through a 7 mile recovery run at 8:30 pace. Hey, Lady. Watch it! The next day, I screwed up my [...]
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After the past year I am so gun shy with regard to injury that I shouldn’t even say this. But I will: I am finally training consistently, and having consistently good workouts. Keys to this are, I believe: Taking days off fairly frequently — and by that I mean completely off; no cross-training, no nothing. [...]
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Aside from my recent purchase of the New Balance Minimus 10 Trail, it’s been quite awhile since I bought some new running shoes for daily training — probably around a year and a half. Since my running was either non-existent or spotty in the post-injury months last summer, I didn’t need new shoes. So I’ve [...]
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Today I had the pleasure of sitting in on a NYRR press (tele)conference with Lauren Fleshman and another 5000 champion, Bobby Curtis (whom I met at last year’s Healthy Kidney 10K). Both runners were there to announce that they’ll be making their marathon debuts at the New York Marathon in November. I only got to [...]
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When I think of the Japanese proverb “Fall down seven times, get up eight” I picture Lauren Fleshman. She gets injured, she slogs through injury recovery, she trains again, she runs fantastic races. Then she gets reinjured and the cycle begins anew. But she never gives up. And she always comes back. Fleshman has one [...]
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Oh, man. I hope I made someone happy today: “weight reduction at 46 years of age”
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Yesterday I was reminded of several things: How daunting a prospect it is to excel in the NYRR club series when so many of the points races seem to fall in the summer What a thrill it is to watch the faster local runners coming over the finish line How many new people I’ve met [...]
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It’s a Super Deluxe Three Week Edition. I wish I could give you a funny fold-in picture like they used to do in the back of MAD Magazine, but I do not have such a thing, nor time to make one. Let’s get cracking. Now I am training for a mile race. Someone at work [...]
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