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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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
CIM Training Week 5 of 12: Highs & Lows
If CIM Training Week 4 was all rainbows and unicorns, then Week 5 was a whole load of the opposite. Here’s what went down: Monday: Rest. Tuesday: 90 minutes easy. OOF. This one was a slog, partially due to beat-up…
Me vs. the Sidewalk
CIM training starts tomorrow! As an example of the kind of nerd I am, I wasn’t that excited until I set up my training plan spreadsheet. Filling in each box and envisioning the runs filled me with anticipation instead of…
The Importance of Sleep
I know that the title is a no-brainer, and this isn’t going to be an elaborate post about the physiological effects of sleep deprivation. And those of you out there with young children know all too well how important sleep…
Some Progress
As it turns out, signing up for a really expensive half marathon was enough to get me in my running shoes 4 times last week, for a total of 20.5 miles. There was some quality in those miles too: I…
Tagged with: beginner advice, Del Valle, half marathon, hiking, long run, random, track, Walnut Creek Half Marathon
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Posted in random
Tiny Glimmers of Hope
I can already tell that my MAF training experiment is going to be full of highs and lows. A little over a week ago, I was in a funk after my 2nd long run. Then, as if the running gods…
Random Things Thursday
I have a bunch of random thoughts floating around in my head, so I thought I’d unleash them all in the form of a blog post! Lucky you! Random thought #1: MAF long runs are harder than I expected. Why?…
Happy 2nd Blog-a-versary! (and Big Sur Week 3)
Today, Running Tangents turns 2! It’s been a great experience so far. One thing that I’ve found extremely rewarding about Running Tangents is all of the great people I’ve met and gotten to know — either through the blog itself…
Tagged with: Big Sur, blog-a-versary, blogs, bt, Golden Gate Park, Gypsy Runner, Lake Chabot, Land's End, Live Oak Towhee, long run, marathon, San Francisco, training
Posted in Training
Posted in Training
Things that are completely obvious
Such as: Packing, moving, and unpacking for 2.5 days will wreck your body and make you useless in every way possible. Said moving activities are incompatible with training for a marathon, in that even if your body is willing, your…
Tagged with: decision fatigue, Lake Merritt, long run, moving, Oakland Marathon
Posted in random, Training
Posted in random, Training
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