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Category: Training
Saturday Long Run January 14, 2023
A Saturday Long Run This week the Melrose Running Club held their Holiday Party on Saturday night, so we had our Sunday Long Run on Saturday. Some people don’t like to stay out all night and then go for a long run. Since this is the third week of our program, the Saturday Long run…
The Road to Boston SLR 2
Celebrating twenty years since my first training run, I ran the second Sunday Long Run with the Melrose Running Club and guests.
Thursday Night 5 Miler
Feels pretty good getting back to somewhat normal running. I almost got to 60 miles for November. If I can keep this going I might be able to hit 70 for December. I kind of enjoy running through the neighborhoods and seeing all of the Christmas lights. Some people really go all out and put…
Winter marathon training run 2022
I’ve been slowly building my miles since September. Taking it nice and easy in order to avoid another setback. I ran 50.6 miles in September and just over 57 miles in October and November. As the weather gets colder and the nights darker, pushing to 60 miles will become more of a challenge. But the…
Taper Tantrums
Taper Tantrums Originally posted April 1st, 2016 while training for the Boston Marathon. Updated September 24, 2021. Def: Emotional roller-coaster, feeling bloated, fat, slow and lazy. An endless urge to eat everything in sight, and to seek out food not in sight. The constant feeling like you should be doing something else right now, like…
Longest Run of 2020 so far
Sometimes a long run doesn’t go as planned. I thought twelve miles would be good then dropped back to ten. One wrong turn and I ran almost 14 miles! 19 degrees turned out to be the least of my worries!