38:10 - 4 miles Coming off surviving my first marathon, I decided to push my pace faster. For the marathon, I had been training at a 10-11 minute pace ... today, changed that to a…
31:00 - 3 miles It felt really good to run again! 3 days after my first marathon and I am walking with no issues. Granted, my legs are still a bit sore, but I'm just…
05:27:33 - 26.2 miles Getting on a bus at 4:25am with 50 strangers and traveling 40 minutes up a canyon was a new experience for me. What lied ahead, was even more foreign. The bus…
20:30 - 2 miles Been reading quite a bit about race day strategies. Everything from what to eat, when to eat, pace to start out at, when to do the gel, and on and on…
40:20 - 4 miles Nice start to the day with the run and almost kept running! What's challenging me on this tapering (where you run less and less three weeks before a race) is that…
31:00 - 3 miles Amazing to me now how short a 3 mile run seems. I feel myself wanting to run faster and at the same time hesitant to try something new, let alone go…
01:00:20 - 6 miles The mental aspect of running is fascinating to me. I'm pushing my pace and mentally telling myself that I'm still going slowly. Seems to be working. The main reason I am…
42:25 - 4 miles This tapering sure makes life good! At first when I read that I would be dropping from 40 miles a week to 19, I was concerned. Then the next line in…
