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Skunk Cabbage Half Marathon

Posted on April 15, 2018 by skirtrunner / 2 Comments

April 8, 2018 Background This race is usually a big social event for my family. Scott always races it and I always run for fun with friends. I don’t think...

Musings

Training & Repeats

Posted on March 26, 2018 by skirtrunner / 0 Comment

My grand winter training plan hasn’t gone as smoothly as I would like to have had it be. I knew it would happen. We had some trips planned, the winter was...

MITHACAL Miles

MITHACAL Miles Week #6

Posted on February 1, 2018 by skirtrunner / 0 Comment

As with every week, Adam sent out an email with the workout early in the day. Scott gets these in his inbox and forwards them to me and I don’t open it un...

MITHACAL Miles

MITHACAL Miles Week #5

Posted on January 25, 2018 by skirtrunner / 0 Comment

After running the Hartshorne Masters mile on Sunday we’d all be training together again on Tuesday. For week 4, some of the group members did a fast progr...

Training

Winter Training Week #4

Posted on January 24, 2018 by skirtrunner / 0 Comment

This week was a light week for running and really for exercise of any kind. It is challenging with daylight, cold and rain and just the crazy schedule I’v...

MITHACAL Miles/Race Reports

Hartshorne Masters Mile

Posted on January 21, 2018 by skirtrunner / 1 Comment

Scott and I have been training for the past month through a local program sponsored by the Finger Lakes Runner’s Club called the MITHACAL Milers. The enti...

Training

MITHACAL Miles Week #4

Posted on January 19, 2018 by skirtrunner / 0 Comment

This week was a mixed up training week. People running the Hartshorne Masters Mile on Saturday had a shorter, faster workout and people not participating had a ...

Training

Winter Training Week #3

Posted on January 16, 2018 by skirtrunner / 0 Comment

In this third training week I started to feel like myself again. It is less challenging and feels more “normal” to just kick myself out the door to ...

MITHACAL Miles

MITHACAL Miles Workout 3

Posted on January 10, 2018 by skirtrunner / 0 Comment

This week Scott and I were all set to arrive ON TIME and not miss any warm-up exercises. When we made it to downtown Ithaca we heard the sound of a TRAIN. Yup, ...

Training

Winter Training Week #2

Posted on January 7, 2018 by skirtrunner / 0 Comment

Week #2 Summary This week we had a polar plunge in Central New York State and in the entire East coast pretty much. It was so cold that Scott thought ahead abou...

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Chasing My PRs

Here are the times I'm trying to best:
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3 May 2014
May Day 5K
23:41:60
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14 April 2013
Skunk Cabbage 10K
50:52
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5 October 2014
Wineglass Half Marathon
1:46:11
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4 October 2015
Wineglass Marathon
3:48:41
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27 August 2017
Green Lakes Endurance Run
5:38:43 (50K)

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