Thoughts on the Run

41:00 – 4 miles
Read an interesting definition of endurance today at the gym:
The ability to continue even under stress and exhaustion.
That certainly applies to my running goals, but it also applies to everything else in life! From the workplace to home, we all face stress and exhaustion daily. It’s the ability to keep going [...]

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40:00 – 4 miles including 2×800
I’ve been battling a sinus cold the past 3 days and couldn’t take another day of not going running. The original plan was to go in and do a light run … well, that turned into me adding some speed drills into it. Oh well, was distracting enough to make [...]

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5:26:44 – 26.2 Miles
The reason you haven’t seen many posts here is because I haven’t been doing many runs. Yet here is a post with a recap of me running a marathon after said not many runs.
While I knew this race was going to hurt, I knew I was going to finish. The next question [...]

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1:00:00 – 5.5 miles
I’m finding myself more and more tired throughout the day. I remember having this issue when training for my first marathon. It goes back to the food intake. I need to understand and have the time to eat correctly in the right amount.
After my run this morning, I had a bagel and [...]

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53:00 – 5 miles
Still feeling the big hike up the mountain on Saturday afternoon … great exercise and great friends. Would love to work in more mountain workouts, but that makes scheduling a bit tricky.
Now that I am running more, back to the eating dilemma. I am extremely hungry, but want to eat healthy … [...]

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