I've intended to write this post for a while, but I just haven't made the time or had the motivation to do so until now. I know I'll wonder in the future, though, about post-Rocky, and I've had people ask how it's gone. Easier to just point them at this point. Hi, anyone I've pointed here ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, I said I had no interest in running a 100 miler. I'm a terrible night trail runner, and I really like sleep.

I think the first seed was planted at the California International Marathon in 2015, where I'd fallen off pace, and I told Kate I'd rather run 100 slow miles than try to "race" another marathon ( Read more... )

Holy crap. This whole time I've basically been working on a 21 week training schedule, knowing that 21 weeks would take me up to race week. 21 was the magic number. And here we are, at the end of week 21 ( Read more... )

Well, this was certainly a dynamic week. I moved my Tuesday run to Monday, in anticipation of Tuesday's weather being terrible. And it was, and Austin shut down and I got to stay home from work. Yay! Then I did my Thursday run on Wednesday, just to give myself an extra recovery day before my big weekend. It was 18 for my Wednesday run. The coldest ( Read more... )

In our LAST last episode, I said I thought I was back to running now, after taking an entire week off to be sick. I was in a pretty bad place, mentally and emotionally. But good news! I AM back to running ( Read more... )

In our last episode, I said:

"I think I feel good. Other than I might have contracted Matt's cold or whatever illness is plaguing him. It's a lot to ask your body to run 50 miles in two days, and it's even more to ask it to prop up its immune system to fight off an illness that lives in the same house. We'll see. Play it by ear."Haha. Yeah. So ( Read more... )

Well, this was the big week. Weekend, anyway. The one I requested to add to my schedule early on, when I realized I'd need the confidence boost, not necessarily of a 50 miler, but of a longer back to back weekend than was on my schedule ( Read more... )

Backdating this one, because I'm posting it Tuesday. We just rolled back into town after spending a long weekend in Concan, TX for our annual family Christmas in Concan. Much fun was had by all, but that's fodder for this week, and this post is about LAST week ( Read more... )

My runs the last few weeks have been getting slower and slower, to the point where I finally just accepted that this amount of training was hard on my body and my paces were just going to be slower until I dropped my volume and started cross training more again. Evidently all I needed to do was just accept that and move on, because this week my ( Read more... )

I feel like this was a tough week, but honestly that's probably mostly colored by my runs this weekend. I don't really remember my mid-week runs, other than the weather was good. I have a lot of long sleeved shirts in this week's laundry. That's a good thing.

But this weekend is really the part of the week I remember. A challenging race with a DNF ( Read more... )