Tag: marathon training
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Marathon Training Continues
Marathon training continues This week’s total miles were 38.17, or 2.52 miles more than last week. Most training plans allow for a 10% per week increase in miles. My 2.52 was less than that, but enough for me. I ran the same 21.01 mile course that I ran the previous week for my Sunday Long…
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Super Sunday Long Run Part II
Super Sunday Long Run Each year our club volunteers for the “Victorian Fair” in Melrose. Melrose has many Victorian style homes that are just amazing. I have been told that many of these homes were built by railroad owners and executives. It’s a big street fair with vendors and local civic organizations. The Melrose Running Club…
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Training at 50
The 50’s are here! AARP can wait. I need that membership fee to sign up for a 5K. If you saw my post yesterday, I have a few to run in the next 12 months. Over the years, my birthday has fallen on Labor Day or Labor Day weekend several times. Three days to eat, drink…
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Training Week 8
Training Week 8 went very well. My miles are increasing slowly and my knee is under control. Applying RICE to my knee has it feeling better even as my miles have increased. During week 7, I managed to run 30.28 miles. For week 8 I ran 30.45. The Sunday Long Run was about 3 miles…
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Friday run report
I’m finishing week 6 of my marathon training program, so I felt it was time for a Friday run report This week I managed to get to 30.28 miles. We are on week 6 of our 15 week training program, and this is my high mileage point. I know it’s not a lot of miles…
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Training YTD June 2014
Now that we are in the second half of 2014, it seemed like a good time to look at Training YTD Through June 30th I have run 57 times for a total of 458 miles. I’m a little short of what I need to be at if I am going to run 1,000 miles in 2014.…