Category: Running
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25K
A year ago this weekend I ran my first 10K at the Fifth Third River Bank Run. I had concluded at the end of the race that I was going to do the 25K this year, and I used the memories of that run to motivate me all the way until the point I crossed…
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A record month
The month of March has been a big one for me. Despite getting sick (again) earlier this month with the same thing I had the week prior to my trip to California, I managed to shatter a few records: – Most active month on RunKeeper (21+ workouts) – Best running month ever (42.1 miles) –…
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A record month.
Today’s 10K marked an important milestone for me: this has now been the most active running month I’ve ever had. I’m at 32.8 miles for the month so far (there are still 7 days left in the month), and I’m about 6 miles away from having a career length of 200 miles run on my…
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…and now it’s no big deal.
Last week I ran the first official 5K of the season and was pretty pleased with my time – 28:14, about 75 seconds faster than my time last year. It doesn’t hurt that the weather was a solid 25 degrees warmer this time than it was last time, but I’m glad that I was able…
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Runfos, freaky January weather-style
This week’s weather has been a little nuts. Tuesday, I did some interval training downtown. It was 50 degrees outside. I decided to head west, away from the main loop and all of its stoplights and traffic, and headed down to Kollen Park to run along the boardwalk. I’d watch people do it all the…
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Plan C
The conclusion to my summer running goals was supposed to be the Park 2 Park half marathon, which is this Saturday. About a month ago I realized I was desperately not ready and set out an aggressive training plan. When a friend suggested the next day that such a plan might kill/cripple me, I came…
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Training Plan B
After a friend pointed out last night that my training plan was liable to result in the destruction of my Achilles tendon, we came up with an alternate plan based on this. Since I don’t have 3 months to prepare for a half marathon, we decided to start at week 7, and after accounting for…
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Half marathon training plan
I’ll begin with a confession: I’ve really slacked off in the last month since the Holland Hundred. I wasn’t running a whole lot before then either, but I could at least say I was training for a 70 mile bike ride. I had basically stopped working out altogether, and now it shows. I had made…
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Lakeshore Miracle Run
Today I tackled the second run on my summer list (I had a soccer game the night of the Zeeland Zoom…at the same time as the game): the Lakeshore Miracle 10K. This was the second 10K I had ever run, and it was definitely a learning experience. My overall time for the run was somewhere…
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25:11
This morning was the Panther Prowl 5K. It was a pretty small run/walk, smaller probably than the St. Patty’s Day 5K I did back in March, but I had chosen to run this one as part of my 50K goal for Runfos partly because of the distance (I don’t need to train a ton to…