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! [...]
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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 [...]
injuries – keeping them away
last week the lovely beth left me a comment asking: “Just wondering – have you ever struggled with running injuries, if so how did you recover and come back and remain injury free? You’ve probably talked about this at some point, but just wondering.” this is a very good question and i thought it deserved [...]
zzzzzzzzz
besides being hungry and REALLY hungry, marathon training also makes me sleeeeepy! i love to sleep, so i don’t really have a problem with it, but i do notice that i need extra sleep during training. this morning was no exception. my alarm went off at 4:55am so i could get up to get my [...]
ice queen
my post saturday triggered a lot of questions regarding icing and ice baths, so i decided to give them a post all their own although i am definitely not an expert on this, this is what has worked for me in the past year since i started running. questions… are they necessary?i know a lot [...]
happy valentines day!
so far the day has been perfect. i slept in after 10+ hours of sleep last night and woke up to perfect running weather. the rain had stopped and it was sunny, cloudy and cool. i drank a cup of coffee and ate my usual english muffin with peanut butter and a banana, and we [...]
feeling the love…
seriously you guys are all amazing. i was definitely feeling the blogger love yesterday. THANK YOU so much for all the advice!!! the most common things seem to be ice, rolling and stretching – which i have been doing to no end since i got home sunday morning from my run and i already feel [...]
hello IT band…
it is NOT nice to meet you. saturday morning i had a small window to get my run done in since the girls had a vet appt at 10am… this means i would have had to start my run about 6:30am to have enough time to get back, get ready and get to the vet. [...]
