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 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…
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
A Quick & Dirty Guide to Training for Your First Half Marathon
Disclaimer: I’m not a medical doctor, nor am I a certified coach. The advice below is purely anecdotal and should be taken with a grain of salt. 🙂 My sister-in-law, LJ, recently signed up for her first half marathon in…
Low Risk, Low Reward
So, I’m going to start by talking about travel, but end with running. Feel free to stop/start reading wherever your interests lie (lay?). Back in June, the Gypsy Runner and I went to Mexico. There was an amazing Travelzoo deal…
A quick update
Hi there! I’m still alive, even though it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything at all, and even longer since I’ve written about running. I can’t believe it’s almost February – time is flying by, and yet seems to…
CIM Week 11.5 of 12: Race Preview
Let’s face it: it’s super awkward to post workouts from the last week of marathon training after the race, so I thought I’d lump the beginning of Week 12 with a little race preview, to get my pre-CIM rambling on.…
CIM Training Week 11 of 12: Almost Game Time
Less than a week to go until CIM!! It seems so surreal. I’ll draft a race preview sometime later this week, but in the meantime, here are some random thoughts: My right ankle has been bugging me since the Berkeley…
Running Tangents 