Marathon training is never perfect. It is never linear progress, and there are always difficult moments and bad weeks. For me, week eight of my buildup to September’s Boston qualifier attempt could have defeated me. The downward spiral started when I woke up Monday night coughing. So I didn’t make my track workout Tuesday morning. […]
Boston Beard 2024 week 7 — practicing training-plan flexibility
The success or failure of a training buildup can swing on small decisions. Knowing when to back off pace a bit. The right time to force a workout, and when to ditch it. When to dig deep and reach a breakthrough, and when to avoid injury and be able to run well on future days. […]
Boston Beard 2024 week 6 — halfway to race day
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 […]
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. […]
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