Tag: Recovery
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Week 3: Marathon Szn
5/21: Easy Run AM + Strength PMThe assignment was an “easy” run, except now the volume of easy is longer than before. That’s how marathon season goes: short runs become longer and longer runs become weekend adventures. Since the skeleton was still feeling Sunday’s long run and Saturday’s strength training, I knew I had to…
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Return-to-Run, v3.0 (cont.)
4/29: Level 7 – Grit Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit. Grit is powering through 6 intervals in the weirdest spring heat wave and a down pour. Today’s run (7min run, 1min walk x6) was filled with grit on many levels. I slept over 10hrs and had a complete rest day yesterday to hit…
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Winning at Half-way!
R4R Level 5, Part 1 I needed tonight to go well. A wish to come true. A boost in the right direction. A thread of string to keep pulling me along this road of rehab and recovery. And the universe delivered all of this. Today is 16wks from imaging, or 112 days. I still remember…
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Patience on the Plateau
R4R Level 4, Part 1“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” One of the things that you can control is your attitude towards whatever it is that you face. You can be tossed a hand of cards you never deserved in the first place and…
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Toughness on the Journey of a New Sport
“Real toughness is coming to terms with who we are and what we face, and making sense of and finding meaning in that struggle.” – S. Magness – What is toughness? Toughness is sitting outside between lightning strikes writing this blog because I refuse to be inside. Actually, that is probably more like stubbornness. Toughness…
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The Dark Side of Endurance Running
Have you: skipped breakfast for a long run? Ran race after race every weekend (or more than one per training season)? Participated in group posts/threads about who’s racing this weekend and where? Taken your easy days way too hard? Not carried any fuel or hydration for endurance activities longer than an hour? Obsessed over who…
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Hip Ship Shenanigans
[Week of 6/19: Marathon Season Paused] Monday: I hopped a quick jet trip over Lake Michigan to see my Coach for my pesky problem-child hip. There’s something still wrong with it and if anyone can help me get back on track, it is my Coach. I’m always very confident in his assessment and evaluation, since…
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Day 11 – Nomad explorations
Today, we are back in Tokyo to do a few fun things before our vacation days are gone and our pocketbooks are well-spent. We started off our morning with a gorgeous sunrise from our room overlooking Tokyo Bay and this only meant good things for the day ahead. We headed off to the Tsukiji Market,…
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Jazzin’ Japan – Day 8
After a “western” breakfast buffet, we put on our walking shoes for a fun-filled day by foot here in Kyoto! My marathon body was ready for all 21,000 steps that today would bring (~ 10 miles) and the skeleton approved! We took an Uber ride to Fushimi Inari Taisha, which is one of the iconic…
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Travel Time – Japan Day 7
I woke up this morning, having just run 26.7 miles (yes the course was a bit long on my watch). My skeleton is tired, but absolutely feeling grand. This is probably the best I have ever felt after a marathon. It does make me question if I gave it everything I had yesterday or if…
Re-Energized Running 