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Help… I’m working on a 70-mile week, with a goal marathon on 11/8… #running
Ok, clarification… the help I seek is with my plan, not with my sanity. Working on a 70-mile week, goal marathon 11/8. [Training log summary] Should I push through to 80 miles over the next 4 weeks or down to the 50-60 mile range and work on pacing? Currently, my easy runs are in the…
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Slightly slow 17 miler in 2:44:15 #twit2fit
I guess it’s a good sign that I could finish a long run with any legs at all given that I’ve run my first back-to-back 60+ mile weeks ever. I just hate feeling like my legs are dead on a training run. I did, however, manage a first half/second half negative split yet again. Of…
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A journey of 5,000 miles begins with one mile.
1,189 days ago, on April 24,2006, I began a quest that was doomed to fail like so many times before. I weighed over 220 lbs. At some point during the preceding winter, I weighed over 230 lbs (at just under 5’8″). That’s a BMI of 35.5–obese. Something was different this time. My 20-month-old daughter might…