January 14th, 2020 As is typical we got our email with our workout early in the day. I read it and thought, “this workout is going to kill me.” Whenever repeats go over a 600 it is really challenging. Our evening called for either 800s or 1000s depending on what my group felt was the…
The first “pre-training” week went pretty well! I hit my training goals and only shuffled a few things around. There were only a few things to contend with this week.
January 7, 2020 The workout The 2nd week I took time to READ my email from Adam about our evening workout. This evening we’d be doing a ladder workout: 200 at R pace followed by 200 rest 400 at R pace followed by 400 rest 600 at I pace followed by 400 rest 800 at…
December 10, 2019 I missed the time trial because I had an evening conflict. To be perfectly candid, I was really happy about this! I am in the slowest group anyway, so I knew my time trial wasn’t going to really affect my training (except maybe put me behind the slowest group). For week #1,…
Xander wants to run a marathon this year so we started looking at choices! Due to his schedule with cross country, music and school there is really only one good time of year to fit a marathon in – late spring. Our criteria for the race required that it be within driving distance, and have…
My friend Anne recently wrote her year in review and it inspired me to take a moment to reflect on my year. I had a good time thinking about my 2019 fitness and the rest of the year as well! 2018 ended with real challenges and 2019 was a rough start. My mom was diagnosed…
From Two to Four I signed up for this race 2 years ago with Scott. It was going to be a date weekend in November 2018. Neither of the kids wanted to join us so we got a hotel in downtown and looked forward to the chance to have a romantic running weekend. Then, late…
Swim (49:11) Training had been so so for swimming. I started back in May swimming in the pool and then switched to the lake right before the 4th of July. I anticipated many lovely swim practice afternoons after a quick trip to NYC with Scott and Elizabeth. On our trip we learned that the lake…
This was the 5th running of the Gorges Half and it was my 5th time running it!! During those 5 years the race has had 3 different courses. I thought back to each of them this morning. 2015 (2:01:46) The course started by going up Remington hill. I remember being SO proud that Jenny and I…
My first swim of 2019 was not so bad! I look forward to weekly swims to help get ready for the one intermediate triathlon I do each year.
