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Category: Training
Sunday Long Run Season is Over
Sunday Long Run 15 This year the Melrose Running Club made a few adjustments to accommodate our Chicago Marathon runners. Their race was on October 8th, so Jim Carson had to accelerate their schedule to get a 22 mile run in on September 17th, and still have time for an orderly taper. Everyone else is…
Sunday Long Run Number 8 for 2017
Sunday Long Run Number 8 was a step up in distance to 18.1 for the long run. The short run was 9.1 and for our friends running the Chicago Marathon there was a 20 mile run. My race isn’t until December 10th, so I did the 18.1 mile run. Like all Sunday Long Runs, we…
Sunday Long Run Number 6 for 2017
Sunday Long Run Number 6 Now that I’m committed to a 2017 marathon, the training must go on. I rely on the Sunday Long Run program to get in my weekly long run. If it wasn’t for this program, getting in my miles and these long runs would be much more challenging. This week the official…
Senior Circuit Running
This past week I have been away for business and visiting with my parents. While I did a lot of walking, I also did a lot of eating, a fair bit of drinking and got no proper exercise. Senior Circuit My parents live in a development in Florida. It seems theses developments are everywhere in…
Sunday Long Run 2017 Winchester Highlands
Sunday Long Run Week Seven The “Winchester Highlands Run” is a particularly challenging Sunday long run. The long course is 16.2 miles full of hills. It is also a step up week from the previous week’s 12.5 mile run. Out total elevation gain and loss is 600 feet. Now if that were spread over 16.2…
Taper Time 2016
I’m in my first full week of taper time, and I’m felling a little better. Last week I had a lot of stuff on my mind. I’m behind on my training and my fundraising, and time is running out! I knew these would be issues going into this, but it became very corpreal last week…