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Twisted Ankle Half Marathon 2012-In Pieces n’ Pictures.

May 13, 2012

This is the longest race report ever. Sort of like this race. Number of miles: 13.2 Number of steps: 37,000 according to my Fitbit before it gave up and cried. Number of peanut butter/jelly sandwiches: 3 total Number of snakes I saw: 1 …

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Couch to 5K plan

After you earned the T-shirt.

May 1, 2012

You’ve trained hard. You’ve posted the Couch to 5K plan on your fridge and gleefully crossed off each training run. Each week that you added more running time than walking time is circled or highlighted. There may even be a few squiggles of writing on there with thoughts like “wow! I did …

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Race reports

Gulf Coast Half Marathon

April 15, 2012

This was a disaster. Short version-I finished on two legs. And my time was slower than my last trail half in Colorado with hefty elevation. I’m not cut out for beach races. Long version: I woke up with burning skin, dry throat, and a way too full stomach from the night before. I had a [...]

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CrossFit

6 Month Running challenge

December 12, 2011

It has been one week since I finished my first marathon and I’m ready to ease back into running. The general rule of thumb is to take 1 day off from HARD RUNNING for every mile in the race. For me, that’s 26 days. Yeah, I can’t not run for 26 days. …

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Running

What running has done for me.

October 31, 2011

I understand the speed limit signs in Canada. The doctor fell asleep during my stress test. I know every PR for every possible distance down to the hundredth of a second, every race I’ve ever run, the finish times….but I have hard time remembering my home phone number and family birthdays. I can say “fartlek” [...]

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Running

The first marathon-two versions.

October 24, 2011

Many moons ago, the Persians and the Greeks were fighting a war against each other. In Greece, two major cities had formed, Athens and Sparta. They were a large distanced away from each other and decided they needed each other’s help to defend their lands from the Persians. The Athens needed the help …

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Running

Change in Plans

October 11, 2011

I have the St. Jude Marathon coming up in 8 weeks. My last 3 weekends have been nothing. No running. No working out. Just recovery from injury and illness. Obviously, I won’t be able to continue with my training schedule the way I planned it. I need to modify it and keep going. I will [...]