Patience has never been one of my strongest virtues, in fact, it might be my worst. Right now it’s definitely being tested. I tried my best to be patient with recovery after AR50. This race was a whole new level of running and endurance and training, so I have to expect for my body to [...]
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American River 50: Recovery Week
I wasn’t sure if I would even post a weekly recap about this week, but I have been getting a lot of questions about how recovery is going, so here we go. This will definitely be the last post with “American River 50” in the title… I know, it’s about time! Last week included a [...]
The Most Popular Question
I try to answer questions I get from readers as they come in, but I have noticed that throughout this ultra-training cycle I have received one question more than any other question. I have tried to sit down and write a post on it, but I have kind of have a tough time figuring out [...]
Increasing Mileage
I received a comment/question from a reader a couple weeks ago and thought the topic warranted it’s own blog post since it’s such a popular topic among runners I thought you guys would have some great information as well. When you first began running did you go through aches and pains as your mileage increased? [...]
I Answered, Part 3
You guys have the best questions! Did you miss Part 1 and Part 2? Check them out… here we go on Part 3! As always, these are just my thoughts and opinions based on my experiences and observations. Everyone is different and things apply differently to each person. Tabitha asked: I ran my third half [...]
My Hot Date
Sadly I am not talking about this one… But instead this one… One of my “problem” areas over the 6+ months has been this spot in my quad. It’s a knot I get between my quad muscle and IT band and it just gets tight. It doesn’t really hurt that bad, but I just know [...]
Rest Days
Mondays are my standard day off of running and any other physical activity, also known as my rest day. After 6 days of running, and typically the day after a long run, my body is very thankful to have a day off. Many runners seem to have problems taking rest days and even dread them! [...]
Steps to an ice bath
I really try to get in the habit of taking a full ice bath (vs. the ice bucket just for the lower legs) after my LONG runs. It doesn’t happen every single time, but those days that I am home soon after my run I definitely take one! I got back in the habit post [...]
Injury Prevention
In follow up to the high mileage post, I wanted to post some things I have used to help keep me injury free during high mileage training. Some people are just lucky and have the biomechanics and body type that don’t get easily injured, others not so much. My poor husband has had every running [...]
recovery
recovery is definitely NOT my favorite part of training. i do enjoy it for the first couple days, but that doesn’t last very long. i hate feeling lazy and i hate having to regain fitness. plus with these 3 weekends of racing, i feel like my recovery time has been going on foreverrrrr! i know [...]
