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Being Prepared for Anything
Marathon training can be a slog. Most training plans cover a 16 week training plan where you are slowly increasing your weekly mileage with cutback weeks thrown in to help your muscles recover from all those miles you are adding … Continue reading
Marathon Training Gets Real
I started my training approximately six weeks after my final breast reconstruction surgery. I say approximately because I may have cheated and ran really slow for a couple of miles before I was really cleared to run. Keep in mind … Continue reading
Posted in running, training
Tagged London, marathon training, Philadelphia Marathon, Regent's Park 10K, training
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Running With a Purpose
Regular readers of my blog will have noticed long gaps between posts and my brief mention of surgeries and other medical issues. For a long time I have kept the news about what has been going on limited to a … Continue reading
Posted in running
Tagged AACR, Blue Cross Broad Street Run, Cancer, marathon training, Philadelphia Marathon, Regent's Park 10K, travel
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All That Thankful Stuff
So here I am on Thanksgiving with my dog stretched out on the sofa with me. My best buddy will be here later and we will chow down on our Thanksgiving feast. I am so thankful for that but this … Continue reading
Yup, I’m Still Here
Oh boy it has been a really long long time since I posted something. Thankfully, I have mostly good and upbeat running updates to give you all. I’ve been running! Not as consistently as I would like but I have … Continue reading
Celebrating the Little Things
When I was going through the deepest part of my depression last year my therapist kept stressing to me that I needed to step back and appreciate some of the basic things I did as major accomplishments. As I was running … Continue reading
Marathon Deferred
It has come down to this. I have to defer the NYC Marathon. The gist of it comes down to a couple of things. 1) The tendonitis in my foot may not be tendonitis but a possible stress fracture. 2) … Continue reading
Posted in NYC Marathon, running
Tagged kidney stone, marathon training, Miami Half Marathon, Running, stress fracture, training
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Earning It
The past few weeks have been tough training-wise, well and in other areas of my life as well. I have been so busy that it has been very difficult to head out for my weekly training runs. This makes for … Continue reading
Posted in Half Marathons, Race Recap, Races, running
Tagged marathon training, Paine to Pain Trail Half Marathon, racing, Running, Trail Running, training
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A Hitch in My Giddy Up
Last week’s training went very well until I headed out for my long run on Sunday. You see I’ve got the tendonitis thing on the top of my left foot. It started bothering at mile 17 of the 2010 NYC … Continue reading
Posted in NYC Marathon, running
Tagged KT Tape, marathon training, NJ Marathon, NYC Marathon, Running, training
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Back on Track
Sometimes hitting the reset button is just what we need. After a week of not being able to get out form most of my training runs and decided to flip my upcoming recovery week and the week I sort of … Continue reading
Posted in NYC Marathon, running
Tagged cross training, marathon training, NYC Marathon, Running, training
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