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
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…
Taper Time! (Dirty Dozen Weeks 4-9)
Hey there! Yes, I’m still alive… I just haven’t been blogging. 🙂 Somehow, 6 weeks have passed since my last update. The good news is that I’ve been building my long runs pretty consistently. The meh/bad news is that my…
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Dirty Dozen Week 3
I survived the first week at my new job! I’m glad I had a flexible mindset going in, because training certainly didn’t happen as planned. I got my regular Tuesday morning run in (yay!), but an 8:45 am meeting in…
Gearing Up for Another Change
My new job officially started today, but there’s a 4 week transition period, where I’m still doing my old job (tech support, working from home) on Mondays and Fridays. So, tomorrow is my actual “first day” on the job. I’m…
So you’re running a race next week?
The first month of 2018 is almost behind us. That means the Kaiser SF Half is next week! I feel like once I decided that Kaiser was no longer going to be my goal race, I stopped seriously training for…
Tagged with: Bay Trail, Fast finish long run, Kaiser Half, long run, race preview, Redwood Regional, training
Posted in Trail running, Training
Posted in Trail running, Training
Running Tangents 