Well. The Marine Corps Marathon. It happened. Spoiler alert: I did not make a PR. 🙁 Were, technically. I was wrong. But I tried. It’s like I skipped all the Halloween parties for NOTHING. But hey, neither did I, say, break a bone, and I did finish, so it could certainly have been much worse. I’ll be gathering up my...
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Okay. So. This Sunday is the Marine Corps Marathon. This is my third one, so I should not be nervous. I am not nervous. I am NOT nervous. I know I can do it. In fact, I feel more confident going in than I ever have before. Injuries? None! Training? Solid! 20 mile prep race? Not bad! Weather? Unusually...
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In the immortal words of The Festival of the Lion King: It. Is. TIME. Pictured: time. The Marine Corps Marathon is THIS SUNDAY. Training has been accordingly light. Sunday | rest Monday | 9.27 miles on the treadmill in 1:35 Tuesday | walked 2.15 miles outside in 35 minutes; 70 minute ballet class Wednesday | ran 7.39 miles on...
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Marine Corps Marathon is getting close, guys! Knocked out one more long run last week before the big show. Sunday | rest Monday | ran 15.11 miles on the treadmill in 2:35 I had off for Columbus Day so I took advantage of the extra time afforded me. Tuesday | walked 2.11 miles outside in 35 minutes; 70 minute...
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I feel like I spend so much time training for fall races, and then when those races arrive I run less than ever. Which makes sense, what with tapering and all that, but it’s kinda weird sometimes. Anyway, here’s last week’s runs: Sunday | rest I was gonna run this day, but it was dreary and rainy and I...
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Can we talk about Pharrell’s “Happy” for a minute? Because it’s WDW-stalking me. To be accurate, it’s runDisney-stalking me. I have heard it at every Disney race I’ve run since it came out, which means all of them but one. I have heard it on course. I have heard it post-race. But mostly, reliably, INESCAPABLY, I have heard it...
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled post I was gonna put up today in favor of breaking news: Target’s Cartwheel app is lying to you. You have the Cartwheel app, right? That nets you lots of extra discounts at Target? Okay, good. So earlier this week I saw that Cartwheel was offering 20% off C9 by Champion workout gear. Great!...
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Ahhh, tapering. The wonderful concept that has kept my runs short for like a month. (Okay, one of those low mileage weeks was vacation’s fault but whatever.) Post National Capital 20 Miler I took it pretty darned easy. This week I ramp it back up only to begin setting it back down in preparation for the Marine Corps Marathon....
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It is only in a universe of comparison that I can say this, but as I do live in such I won’t hesitate: that was much better. Last year my showing in the National Capital 20 Miler was, shall we say, not my best work. I was very slow. I walked a lot. I was in a fair amount of...
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I did it! I did it! My twenty-miler is BEHIND ME. Take that, marathon training cycle! It’s all downhill from here, baby! All of which is to say that on Sunday I ran the National Capital 20 Miler and it wasn’t nearly as terrible as last year. Review to come, of course. The rest of this week I’ll be...
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