runner's rambles

Between the excitement of race week and laziness of recovery, I forgot to recap my last week of training!  I can’t do every single week but race week. Monday rest Woke up nervous that morning.  The fact that the race was “this week” was scary! I got a massage that night and worked out any [...]

And taper continues… My legs were definitely feeling the {good} effects of taper this week and started to have some life back in them!  Looking at my average paces over the week, you could tell my legs were feeling better compared to peak training. Once this week was over I had to check where it [...]

The first official week of taper is done! My legs started the week off feeling terrible.  They were beaten up and tired, but as the week went on they started feeling better.  I finished off the week feeling better than I have in a long time, so I know another 2 weeks is going to [...]

I had big mileage plans for this week that didn’t quite pan out, but I finished the week tired and ready for taper.  There is nothing worse than hitting taper time with a bunch of energy and not wanting to cut back the mileage right?  I created a list of “wins” for my last big [...]

This was one of my tougher weeks of this training cycle.  Not in the motivational sense, but more so in the fact that my legs were just plain tired.  Don’t get me wrong, this whole training cycle I have been trying to get my legs to this point, so I was happy it happened, but [...]

And the big weeks just keep on coming! After my cutback week last week, me and my legs were ready to work heading into the last big 3 weeks of training.  Everything came together very well and I had another great week of training!  One thing that was a little different about this week was [...]

This was my last cutback week… It’s getting closer! I have been following a cycle of 3 weeks up, one week down for the last 12 weeks.  This was my last week down until I taper.  I have 3 more big weeks ahead, then that’s it – taper time!  But I am not thinking about [...]

The big weeks just keep on coming!  Almost 15 hours of running – sheesh.  I told this to Page today and just started laughing. This week was another very solid week, with some great runs and some tough runs (which are good!).  It was also the 3rd week in a row of big mileage building [...]

Each week my legs and body continue to surprise me and this week was no exception.   Monday rest  My post about doing (or not doing) it all prompted me to want to make some changes to be “better” in a couple areas of my life, mainly my role as a dog-mom.  I made more [...]