Last week was awesome! I did get to 50 miles in a “week” from Friday July 30th to Thursday August 5th. Though it did include the two long runs of the two real weeks the “week” overlapped. I got to 44 in the real week and got to enjoy some great company while running in [...]
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Last week was a mixed bag. Overall I feel really good about how the runs felt and got done. Then again I repeated the 37 mile week from the week before instead of getting to 45 like I planned. I feel okay about this because I responded to how my legs felt instead of forcing [...]
Finally a week to build on both mentally and physically! I hit the gym MWF, and ran every mile I wanted save a hot, early evening run on Saturday after not drinking any water all day. The result? A motivated Ben coming off a 37 mile week hungry for more! And that’s good too because [...]
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This week was pretty nondescript except for the arrival of my new, new shoes on Friday. They are gray with black laces (first pair of non-racing running shoes ever owned with black laces) and are so far un-interesting to Tess. I also got Apple to agree to replace my iPod shuffle for free so the Day [...]
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Don’t get me wrong, the World Cup is a lot of fun but it is awfully distracting! We’ve had almost all the games going on a computer (or more) in our office and of course all went to breakfast for the US-Algeria game on Wednesday. That commitment, combined with waking up a bit late that [...]
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A successful week completed. 27 miles as promised, though it was backloaded more than I thought (20 miles in the last three days). That happens though when your long run is 9 miles I guess. I only got myself to the gym once but I went this morning and will be trying again on W [...]
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Gents, in an effort to get ready for a Half Marathon on October 30th I am finally getting my butt back in the game. As such, I will post here every Monday morning on my progress towards my first training goal… a peak mileage in Phase 1 of 50 miles. Unfortunately, since I took my [...]
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Not all of you got to run with Hans but I hope you will join me in mourning the loss of a fellow OCXC alum and true visionary of our heritage, Hans Petersen.
More info about his memorial service: http://hansinmemoriam.blogspot.com/
I will now go for a very heavy-hearted run.
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That’s right folks, for most of 2010 I’ve felt exactly that. Washed up and old. Turning 27 and barely running more miles than that in the same month will do that to you.
But April has been different. There will be a recoup of some of my greatness and it started on Saturday. After running for [...]
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Jeez! It has apparently been three weeks since my (first) half marathon back on Halloween and I still haven’t posted up the results! Sorry guys.
The race went extremely well as my training leading up to it was off because of some shoe troubles. But it is amazing how being on the starting line can bring [...]
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