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Tag: marathon training
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…
Health on sale
Turmeric Curcumin A few years ago while working through a running injury a friend told me about turmeric. My injury involved inflammation and they told me that turmeric had anti-inflammatory properties. I had been dealing with my injury with ibuprofen, ice and compression. It’s not good to take the maximum daily dose of ibuprofen for…
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…
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…
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…
Boston Marathon Training 2014
Thursday night I finally sat down and updated my Boston Marathon Training work sheet. I was doing okay with the training ramp up until my treadmill/knee incident on January 19th. My goal miles for January were 122.3 but I only managed 81.09. A lot of those miles were on the treadmill so I could avoid…