My alarm sounded at 3:20 a.m. last Thursday, and immediately I decided I wasn’t going to go out for my scheduled long run. I did need to go to the bathroom so I did that. Then I got back in bed. And I couldn’t go back to sleep. I kept thinking about race day barely […]
Archives for July 2024
Boston Beard 2024 week 5 — rage against the algorithm
If Garmin had a metric for how attached a user is to data, I would be categorized as unhealthy. I pay too much attention to every statistic for each run. And almost never in a positive way. My pace, heart rate, training effect, etc. all swirl around in my head. I look at the overall […]
Boston Beard 2024 week 4 — looking up … and down
Hiking with my daughter is so much fun. She’s old enough to enjoy being outside and the freedom of adventure on the trail. But it’s also stressful. She’s almost 5, a mix of confident and not always respectful of danger. So, while on the trails with her, my jobs are guardrail and occasional pack mule. […]
2024 Boston Beard week 3 — travel, fireworks, and I’m still a mouse
Fourth of July week truly kicks off summer. If I’m going to have any chance at meeting my 2024 Boston Marathon qualifying goal, I will need to put together a smart and consistent summer training cycle. That is something I’ve never done. I had one shot at completing a long run last week, and it […]
2024 Boston Beard week 2 — my self sabotage
Full stomach (of candy and Red Bull). Heat of the day. Not enough sleep the night before. I made so many choices leading up to last Thursday’s tempo run. And almost all of them set me up for a miserable run. During both 2-mile repeats of my workout all I thought about was my history […]
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