Category: Training
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Tuesday night club run
Tuesday night club runs usually have a few new runners trying us out. This week I was paired up with a guy trying us out for the first time. Louis said he wanted to run 8:00 minute miles, which is a little faster than I normally run on Tuesday night. My legs still have not…
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Glucose and the Endurance athlete
Glucose and the Endurance Athlete Glucose is a simple sugar or monosaccharide that is an extremely important form of energy for your body. All other carbohydrates and forms of sugar must be broken down into glucose before your muscles and brain can use them. Muscles and other tissues can use fat and protein as an…
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March Madness
March Madness Marathon Training continues! For February I had 142.8 on my training schedule. I managed to get in 42.47 miles or just under 30% of my goal! My goal for March was 189.2 miles. This would have been a 4x increase over February. Tonight I adjusted my schedule for the rest of March. My legs are…
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Long Run Wisdom
During our Sunday Long Run season, we get weekly words of wisdom from Jim. Jim has been organizing our Sunday Long Runs for 10 years and does a great job. He creates the routes, organizes the volunteers and makes sure we have enough supplies for the water stops. Today I am posting Jim’s words of…
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Magical Mystic Valley Run
Our Sunday Long Run was 20 miles this week This type of distance is sometimes referred to as an LSD run: Long Slow Distance. The idea is to go out and run slower than marathon pace with the goal of getting your body used to running for 3-4 hours. There was nothing mystical about Sunday’s…
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Running Weekend March 2014
It’s going to be a running weekend. Today I have the Smuttynose Palooza 5K in Salisbury. The weather looks pretty good. Temps in the 40’s with a mild breeze. I’ll probably wear shorts. You know it’s the dead of winter when anything above 32F feels, pretty good. I know that I have fully adjusted to the…