Long runs are 100% what made me fall in love with running. All those years that I spent hating to run, I had just never gone far enough! Of course then, one of the things I loved the most about training for AR50 was that I got to do two long runs in a row! [...]
Tag Archives | Long runs
Marathon Eve?
Tomorrow I will run my 13th marathon – the Napa Valley Marathon! I am really excited for this race. This is one of our more local races that I have always wanted to run, but it sadly has never fit in to my schedule very well. When I decided to train for AR50 and made [...]
A Giant Run
There are always times during marathon training where I doubt myself and question why on earth I am doing it. I have a hard time getting out the door and finding motivation is hard to come by. Since I am always very honest with my training on the blog I will confess that lately these [...]
A Blogger-ful Weekend
I started writing this on Sunday, but ended up falling asleep on Emma’s the couch at 7pm and sleeping all the way until 6:30am this morning! I guess that is a sign of how awesome this weekend was. Emma says fine you take my couch, I will take your chair but I’m not happy about [...]
Sweet Sixteen
I have had a couple awesome runs this week (which I will talk about later in my weekly recap), but ended up digging myself into a little hole of tiredness after 2 hard workouts and a double. Hmm – who knew? Looking back I definitely know better and need to make sure to plan better [...]
Sneak Peek
This morning I met up with the awesome Alyssa and Katie for our long run around San Francisco. I was actually a little nervous for this run for a few reasons: Distance: I was shooting for 20 miles but was kind of nervous that might not happen. I ran 17 miles last weekend, but was [...]
The Long Run
I think long runs are what made me fall in love with running. It wasn’t until I started having weekends where life would pretty much revolve around my run and that I was actually out there running for hours, that I really found my true passion in running. There is nothing like the feeling after [...]
Paces Galore!
I have received some comments and emails lately asking about the different paces I use during training and I thought it deserved a post on it’s own! I was even more sure of this when I was trying to explain to a coworker the other day about my training plan and pretty much just ended [...]
Saturday vs. Sunday
When I first started running and through my first few marathon training cycles I always did my long runs on Saturday. It worked best for me and I liked the way it synched with my weekends. However, when I started upping my mileage (running both days on the weekend) and adding group workouts to my [...]
