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Training: The Long Road to Race Day
Half Marathon Taper Tips It’s the 18th week on the Team in Training calendar, and the last long run is in the bank. With just three weeks to go until the Nike Women’s Marathon, here are a few tips that I’ve learned in recent years. (My apologies for linking to the race’s Facebook page, but […] Read More
The 10 Question Game
Answers to 10 Running Questions Last week, SBS posted the first of the 10 running-related personal questions that have been circulating around the Another Mother Runner community. Now it’s my turn. 1. Best run ever: A couple of years ago, I was in Chicago for a business trip and I ran along the Lakeshore Trail at sunrise. […] Read More
Training: One Month to Go
Nike Women’s Marathon: Coming Soon Nike is in less than a month, you guys. One month. I can’t quite explain how that makes me feel. On one hand, I won’t have to be waking up at 5:00 AM every Saturday morning. Yay! On the other hand, there’s something to be said for routine and rhythm. […] Read More
Training: Watch the Hair
Finding My Running Stride I’ve been running long enough to know that my first mile is always awkward. My breathing is ragged and uneven, and my arms and legs flail around like they’ve never tried this before. I know how it feels; I just never really knew how it looked. On Tuesday night, we had […] Read More
Training: Not Wanting to Run
A No-Run Weekend This weekend was the one weekend of the season where nothing was scheduled: no 5:00 AM alarm, no coached run for miles, no mentor-led run for time, no water stops to set up and no trail permits to remember to pack in my bag. Our coach gave us a YOYO (you’re on […] Read More
Training: The Hardest 10 Kilometers
Recap: Skirt and Dirt Trail 10k I love a good race. I love trail races even more. I’ve run the Angel Island 12k for the past two years, but being a Captain with Team in Training means that I can’t just take a week off to spend half a day driving to Tiburon, hop on […] Read More
Training: A Change of Perspective
Running Without Garmin or Runkeeper Every year, about this time, I start checking the McMillan pace calculator and obsessing over projected finish times and average paces. I could tell you how fast I could expect to run a mile, or a 5k, or the half marathon that I’d been training for. This year, to put […] Read More
Training: My Retreat
Kingston Women’s Retreat Last weekend, I flew north to the Seattle area and went to the Kingston Women’s Retreat hosted by Kingston Adventures in Kingston, Washington. I honestly had no idea what to expect from the experience, and was admittedly a little bit nervous about walking into a group of 50 complete strangers. Sure, we […] Read More
Training: Fully Recovered and Running Hills
A Physical Therapy Success Story For those of you who have been following my blog (and really, who hasn’t?), you’ll know that way back in the beginning of May, before the Team in Training season even started, I tweaked my IT band while out on a hike. Note to all of you who haven’t been through […] Read More
Training: “A Little Hill”
Hill Training I’ve been part of Team in Training for three years now, long enough to know that when Coach Tim says, “you’re going to be going up a little hill,” I know that he’s a liar. “Little hill” translates to “you’re going to be climbing up a vertical incline so steep that you’ll wish […] Read More
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