I think this heat & humidity is turning my brain to mush. I can't put a coherent thought together...but then, this is why then invented bullet points (isn't it?) I blew my streak of early morning runs today - slept through my alarm and then it was … [Continue reading]
"Don't bother to just be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." -- William Faulkner Love this quote - it's a great reminder that we're really only in competition with ourselves! And, the winner of the … [Continue reading]
Ran 10.25 miles this morning. It was a perfect summer morning - still cool, a slight breeze, the sun bright but not intense yet. There were lots of runners out taking advantage of the break in the humidity -- everyone I passed seemed to be … [Continue reading]
"Comfortably hard" - if you look up the definition of a tempo run, you will inevitably find these words to help define the effort to put forward for these steady pace runs. Well, the truth is comfortably hard is a moving target...depending on the … [Continue reading]
Week 7 already! I feel like the weeks of this training plan are just flying by!I got some good feedback on my question about step-back weeks - and for the most part I ran the suggested distances on the plan. I did bump Friday's "long" run up to 6 … [Continue reading]
Since I started training for my first half marathon back in March, I have quickly become a big fan of all things compression. So when the folks at McDavid USA contacted me and asked if I was interested in trying a pair of their new True Compression … [Continue reading]
This morning was one of those runs where I was seriously questioning the sanity of planning to run a half marathon in August!Despite getting out by 6, the lovely bank display showed the temp was already 70 degrees. Mercifully, it doesn't give the … [Continue reading]
Just hanging here on my back deck with an iced coffee in hand enjoying a very lazy morning.After going almost non-stop since Friday, including a double-digit run, lots of much needed weeding and mulching my very neglected garden, cooking and … [Continue reading]
Crazy schedule wrapping up the school year, plus taking a a few days off after the race turned June into one of my lowest mileage months this year.With school finally done, we're settling into a summer routine around here and I've been pushing the … [Continue reading]
Trackwork Tuesday again - The plan called for 1600 repeats again this morning, but I've been itching to mix it up a little. So instead I decided to try a speed workout from Coach Jerry's Key Workouts for a Successful Half Marathon courtesy of … [Continue reading]
