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Tag: marathon training
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.
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!
Running and Chewing Gum
Running and Chewing Gum is an easy way to make a long run enjoyable by avoiding a dry mouth. It’s really quite easy to do.
Sunday Long Run 13 2019
March is over with Sunday Long Run 13 in the books! Last weekend I ran the On The Run Half in Old Orchard Beach, Maine on Saturday. Then the next day I ran 16 miles in from Hopkinton. I would have run further but my left knee started bothering me and I had more than…