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Weekly Recap: On the road
Countdown to B2B: 17 weeks (week of June 25) Being on the road is tough. Traveling across the Atlantic Ocean for less than 72 hours is REALLY tough. Then add a quick overnight turnaround before heading...
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Weekly Recap: Back at it!
Countdown to B2B: 16 weeks I definitely took advantage of having this full week at home to get some great training time! Getting over 100 miles on the bike makes me feel so much better about all of the...
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Weekly Recap: Hamburg Week 1
Countdown to B2B: 7 weeks I have to say, I am a little embarrassed that I am posting yet another weekly recap before finishing my Hood to Coast recaps. Between travel and choosing to READ blogs instead...
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Observations from an International Track Workout
Hello from Hamburg! Yep, still here. And yes, I did promise myself that I would work on my remaining Hood-to-Coast posts before posting anything else, but I had to share this with you first! Tuesday...
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Weekly Recap: Hamburg Week 2
Countdown to B2B: 6 weeks Nothing spectacular or any real low points this week. It was a solid week of training for running and biking and yet another light week on swimming (tough with no pool...
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Going With the Flow
I am type-A. I like creating training plans, filling out spreadsheets, documenting every single mile and I get giddy excited to check-off workouts when they are complete. I also really, really don’t...
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Weekly Recap: Half Taper
Countdown to B2B: 2 weeks (Week of October 8) “Half” taper is literally what my training book called this week. The volume did cut back (about 3 hours less than last week), but with the same number of...
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Weekly Recap: Race Week
This isn’t the race report, yet! All (way too many words) of it is complete, but I am hoping for some race pics to be posted early this week so I can include them, since I don’t have any spectator...
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Thursday Thoughts III
Happy Almost-Friday! I don’t know about y’all, but my week is draaaagging by, but were almost there and in the meantime, I thought I would share some fun things from my week: I went trail running! In...
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Race Week “Don’ts”
You know what’s not ideal? A New Orleans-style boozefest, ahem, business trip in the days leading up to a PR-attempt race. While it was a really great trip, from both a business perspective and the...
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Cold & A Little Bit Crazy
Last week I was in Peoria, IL for work. When I arrived Monday evening, it was a whopping 5 degrees outside. Since it had been 60+ that day in Greenville, needless to say it was a bit of a shock. But as...
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12 Reasons I am a Morning Runner
I was thinking last week about why I endure absurdly early alarm clocks and pre-dawn miles to get my training in. Despite how hard it is to pull myself out of a warm bed sometimes, my answer to the...
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Know When to Fold ‘em
Guten Morgen (or tog…depending on when you are reading) from Hamburg! I arrived yesterday and had a relaxing day, including an easy recovery run on the treadmill and some lower body strength work. I...
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Travel Crazy
The past week has been a chaotic mix of travel, work, running and good food (and lots of it). Travel… If you follow me on Twitter, this will look familiar, but basically the last 9 days have looked...
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Change of Heart
Last week my friend, Lauren, had a great post about the somewhat polarizing subject of running on the treadmill. At the end she asked the question: Treadmill = your favorite running partner or the...
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Thoughts from Recovery Week
Last week I hit my current highest mileage ever, with just over 53 miles. Physically, for the most part, my legs and body are feeling strong. I did feel slightly beat-up in the last couple of miles of...
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Chicago Bound
“You’re running the Chicago Marathon?”, you ask. Nope. I am not Chicago bound because I am running the marathon this October. In fact, despite debating it for a while, I didn’t even try to register or...
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An Update on the Move
Just in case anyone was wondering (and for myself to look back on later), I wanted to give a quick update on The Move. I capitalize it like an important event, because over the last month all things...
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What Now?
Like most runners, I rarely finish a training cycle, without some idea of what the next “big thing” will be. The only way I have found to beat post-race depression is to jump right into something...
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DNS
Shortly after Bayshore, as I was riding a PR high, I posted my upcoming race schedule. Since I thought it was a “typical” summer racing schedule, I was a bit surprised that many of your comments were...
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