Last week has been absolutely blah with regards to training. Even more so than the previous weeks. I didn’t feel any inclination to run at all, and even through I have done my track workout this week I still feel blah about waking up early and getting a run in. And the worst .- I didn’t care! Part of it is because school started and after school activities started last week. I’ve been occupied trying to arrange everything and realizing…
After my scare with my knee a couple of weeks ago (in detail at the bottom of this post) and hesistant about starting a strength training routine just 12 weeks from my marathon, I read up on strength training DURING marathon training (on Active articles, Jason Fitz’s Strenght Running, Jeff’s Runners Connect and more). These were simple short exercises that isolated muscle groups and worked to “activate” them. So glute exercises were meant to activate the glutes – often dormant in many…
The power of words, however casually said, is enormous. It has the ability to motivate and inspire. It provides me with extrinsic motivation, and has the ability to pull me through when least suspected. (Of course, I’ve also been told that I’m a bit over-dramatic at times 🙂 ) Anyway, case in point – this morning’s run. I started the intended 12 mile run with a smile. I took my music off and just listened. Listened to the cars go…
It is not yet January , the time for goals and resolutions. But I have my goal picked out for this season and I’m going to treat the next 5 months as a “mini-year” with goals, resolutions and check points! I have a SMART goal (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-based) – for a marathon that I will refer to as the “Mystery Marathon”. And the goal in this marathon is to complete within the official time limit. But a goal…
A rare week since the start of training that I didn’t feel all that awesome going into the long run. Was up every hour the night before, and woke up with a sore throat. But that didn’t stop me from being slightly nervous excited for 15 miles when I left home at 5:15am! (Please don’t mind the shopping bags in the background. We just did our starting-school shopping the day before, and I reckon the bags will stay there until school…