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Chicago Marathon Training: Week Seven
Week seven was a 5K race week. It featured lower mileage in preparation for Saturday (eh), workouts that focused on sharpening speed and shaking out legs (ahhh), and a successful PR race (huzzah!)....
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Monthly Mileage: July 2013
Ramping up the marathon training mileage. Compared to June 2013: 92.75 miles.
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Chicago Marathon Training: Week Eight
Week eight was a weekly mileage record for me! In the past, I’ve trained using Run Less Run Faster. That plan promotes three running workouts/week. My mileage used to cap out around 38 miles/week at...
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Chicago Marathon Training: Week Nine
Week nine was a bit hectic (eh) leading up to vacation (oh, hey!), but featured a lot of nice running (oh, yeah). Enjoying the higher mileage and more challenging paces. Monday Run: Tempo. This run! I...
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Chicago Marathon Training: Week Ten
Week ten was great fun training while on vacation (finally) in Badlands National Park, SD (love)! Just check out the photos from my runs! Monday Run: Tempo. First training run in Badlands National...
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Chicago Marathon Training: Week Eleven
Week eleven was challenging, in a good way. Paces are dropping, and I can feel myself comfortably pushing to meet them. The temperature crept back up mid-week, feeling more like August than it had...
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Monthly Mileage: August 2013
That’s a PR in monthly mileage! Compared to July 2013: 150.39 miles.
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Chicago Marathon Training: Week Twelve
Week twelve capped off August training. This week’s running pushed me into the highest mileage month I’ve ever logged. I made it out of the city for a few days, to bid farewell to the summer in Fire...
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Chicago Marathon Training: Week Thirteen
Week thirteen was another higher mileage week. It also required more schedule manipulation than usual due to my personal schedule. Had to move runs to the AM, PM, and switched my interval day....
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Motivation: Real Life
Last night I tried to run my mile repeats in that horrible torrential onslaught of rain. I made it about 5.5 miles through when the bike path along the water was abandoned, and the lightning overhead...
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Chicago Marathon Training: Week Fourteen
Week fourteen was a funky training week. It was probably the most I’d fallen off schedule, so far. It kicked off with a fantastic long tempo run. After that, the weather reared its ugly head. High...
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Chicago Marathon Training: Week Fifteen
Week fifteen was my last intense set of workouts before beginning to taper. The week had three fantastic runs. Thrown in was one “easy” run that felt junky, with noticeable shin pain. It caused me to...
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Chicago Marathon Training: Week Sixteen
Week sixteen was my first full week of taper. Coach cut back on mileage but geared my workouts to keeping my legs sharp. Ran intervals for the first time on a track (I know, where have I been all this...
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Chicago Marathon Training: Week Seventeen
Week seventeen’s runs were pretty darn good. Perhaps minus Wednesday’s easy run, as that workout never feels great, to me. That aside, the runs went smoothly and my legs feel more recovered. Taper’s...
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Closing The Chicago Chapter
“Each goal achieved is equally a dream destroyed.” Reinhold Messner ~ Thank you kindly for the introduction, Reinhold. I should add: my marathon dream is still very much intact. The Chicago Marathon...
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The Breaks: Moving Beyond Injury
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” Oprah Winfrey ~ Two weeks ago, I returned to Dr. Geller, the orthopedic podiatrist who’s been treating my most-recent stress fracture. He x-rayed the site of the...
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