Posts Tagged ‘ team in training ’
Training: Tapering and Slacking
Slacking During Half Marathon Taper This will be a brief post. Why? Because I haven’t done anything this week. Well, that’s not entirely true. I did my PT exercises and spent quality time with my foam roller. I went to Pilates on Wednesday. But the truth is that I haven’t run a step all week. […] 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: 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
Change: Call Me Coach, Maybe?
Becoming a Running Coach A strange thing has happened in recent weeks. In early July, someone suggested that I should become a running coach. I kind of laughed it off. A week later, another person asked if I would get certified so I could coach her. I kind of laughed it off. By the time […] 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
What Not to Cook: Impossibly Easy Pie
Bisquick Impossibly Easy Pie It should probably go without saying that anything made with Bisquick is… well, it’s more the stuff that my mother would have made in the Packaged Goods 1980s than what I would cook today. But I was feeling kind of nostalgic for the comfort foods of my childhood. I didn’t have […] Read More
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