So I decided to shake things up a bit this week and I told my coach that I no longer wanted to do a traditional training plan. Having a plan and specific days to run was stressing me out and I wanted to return to a place where I was just doing strength training with […]
How is it already week 3? We got back from our quick visit to the Bay Area and were planning for a camping trip to Yosemite for the next weekend so I took my schedule and switched up some of the workout days. I got a hydro-jug after I got back from the Bay Area […]
Week 2 of training went about how I expected based off how the last 7 months of running has gone. For whatever reason it seems like I have one great week of training and then one not so great week, which really makes it hard to get to a place of consistency. After running the […]
Here we go my friends. I haven’t officially trained for a marathon in many, many years. In fact I would go so far as to say, maybe the last time I legit trained for a race, any race, but especially a marathon was back in 2014 when I ran the Rome Marathon. Since I met […]
It’s been months now since our last in person race, the Los Angeles Marathon on March 8. I never actually recapped that race, maybe I’ll do it soon. In any case since that time, like everyone else, we’ve had all of our races cancelled for the year. So what does a serial racer do? Sign […]
This week was an odd week, starting off with a holiday and then I was traveling pretty much the full week so I didn’t exactly adhere to my plan – oops ;). Monday – Easy Recovery Run I woke up with sore legs from the long run the day before and didn’t feel right so […]
I mentioned this in my last post but I’ve decided to focus on my half marathon time for the rest of the year and focus on getting stronger and hopefully faster before training for my next marathon. I’ve worked with 3 different coaches over the last year and a half and I think I’ve finally […]