Well this week was the epitome of peaks and valleys.
I only managed (for various reasons/excuses) three runs this week. The first was my workout on Wednesday (more below). The second was my long run on Friday (11 miles). And the third was the dual 5k legs of the Minneapolis Duathlon on Sunday.
That’s it. No training [...]
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Wow, what a crappy follow-up week to my 50 miler. My workouts went well but other than that this week was a failure. I took Wednesday off, after taking Monday off, thinking I could squeeze more into my weekend in VA visiting family and it all went downhill from there. Waking up at 4:30 am [...]
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The road to 50 has come to an end at 50 miles in one week! I was able to pull of this feat for the first time since (probably) junior year (soooo… 2003-2004) and I am feeling great about it. I was feeling pretty dead legged on Saturday for my last “training” run of the [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Wow, the more I report to you guys the less I seem to get done. This week was another dip in the road due to lack of motivation in the early week. Did you know that math says if you wait until Thursday for your first run then you must average 10 miles a day [...]
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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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It looks like I may have finally had an eventful week though I would probably trade it for one less destructive. Last week again started with a too many non-running days. Mostly that was due to me not getting my runs done in the AM. I really need to get tough with myself (as I [...]
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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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