It’s happening! In less than a week, I’ll be running the London Marathon with 40,000 of my new friends. We leave on Wednesday and I can’t wait! I’m also soooo looking forward to vacation. I figured this would be a…
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Race Recap: Oakland Half Marathon 2019
Why: I had 18 miles on the training schedule for race weekend, and tagging a late morning half marathon on the end of it made sense to me. Oakland has always been a logistically easy race. I usually like the…
Tagged with: friends, half marathon, London Marathon, Oakland Running Festival, race photos, training
Posted in Race Recap, Training
Posted in Race Recap, Training
London Marathon: Weeks 9-12 (Victory Half Pacing Recap)
Hi there! I’m still alive and training for the London Marathon. I’m not hitting my target weekly mileage, but the good news is that I’m still healthy and intact. Better to show up undertrained than injured, as they say. Rather…
London Marathon: Weeks 4-8 (Kaiser Half Recap)
Hello! I can’t believe I’m 8 weeks into a 18 week marathon training cycle and still haven’t cracked 13 miles for my longest run. But that’s the Hal Higdon novice plan for you. Hopefully my body will hold up to…
Tagged with: friends, Kaiser Half, London Marathon, rain, training recap
Posted in Race Recap, Training
Posted in Race Recap, Training
Germany Travel Tips
Hey all! I’m back from Germany. It was a great trip, a bit colder than I’m used to, but thankfully nothing as insane as what’s been going on in the Midwest and East Coast. I was in Germany for 10…
London Marathon: Weeks 1-3
Less than 15 weeks until the London Marathon! Eeek! What I love about the Hal Higdon Novice 1 training plan is that it starts off very, very slowly… which is exactly what I needed for the almost two weeks I…
A New Cycle
Today is Christmas Eve, but it also happens to be the first day of an 18-week training cycle for the London Marathon. Eek! My goals for the race are simply to finish, to enjoy the running tour of London, and…
Race Recap: OktobeRun 5K
I’ve been so bad about blogging lately, but I sincerely thought I could post a recap of this race within a month of running it. Turns out I was wrong. Also, the shorter the race, the less material there is,…
Gear Review: Garmin vivoactive 3
I had a Garmin Forerunner 210 for 4 years, and I was less than 2 years into the Forerunner 235 when I came upon extreme watch envy: the Garmin vivoactive 3. Technically, my friend HW was wearing the vivomove HR…
The Last 2.5 Months
Hey! Yes, I’m still here. Life has been good, but super busy. Here’s a quick recap of the last 2.5 months – in running and non-running news: August: I paced the 2:20 group at the Brazen Summer Breeze Half Marathon,…
Running Tangents 