Skunk Cabbage Half Marathon
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...
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Training & Repeats
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 Week #6
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 Week #5
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...
Winter Training Week #4
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...
Hartshorne Masters Mile
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...
MITHACAL Miles Week #4
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 ...
Winter Training Week #3
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 Workout 3
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, ...
Winter Training Week #2
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...