Race Recap

It’s Wednesday and my legs are still sore. It’s still tough getting up and down the stairs.  But it is getting better. It was a lot easier getting out of bed this morning than it was on Monday or Tuesday.  Slowly things are getting back to normal. Still, it won’t be until near the end

Last Training Update

As I started to think about this update it occurred to me that this will be the last training update. Next week is the race. The training is finished. Now it’s just a matter of resting, hydrating, eating right, and some easy runs. I’m not sure if this last week was a total taper, but

Hegemony, Sin, the True self, and Some Training

Sometimes when I run a word pops into my head. I end up thinking about that word the entire run; sometimes the entire week. I just keep churning it around in my mind. I’ll use it in a sentence. Play with its cognates. Hear myself saying (in my head; I don’t actually say it out

Last 20 Mile Run, First Sunday of Lent

Last 50 mile week before the LA Marathon; last 20 mile run before the race; not quite at the taper, but getting close. I must admit I’m ready for the taper. My legs have been tired. Sunday’s 20 mile run was difficult. Mostly, I think, because of the rain. For the last two hours I

The Gift

This week was an easy week. Mostly short runs; twelve miles on Sunday. Got a couple of good rides in as well. All in all, a nice recovery. I’m ready for one more long week, one more final push before the race. But that is only part of this past week’s story. I did get

12,235 Calories

According to MapMyRun I burned 12,235 calories exercising last week. That’s a lot of calories. Of course, I realize that this is far from totally accurate. But still… it’s pretty good. For most of the week I felt pretty good. I got two good rides in early in the week. Saturday’s ‘pace’ run was really

Water. Hope. Life.

January was a good month. I ran just over 176 miles. Feel pretty good about that. This past week was a cut back week, a rest week. I think I needed it. I was starting to slog. Saturday was a ‘pace’ run; I ended up running a little under pace. I may have paid for

Possibilities, Hope, and Morning Runs

Every two weeks we have an easy week. For two weeks we build miles, and then on the third we recover. Or at least that how it goes until our long run gets to 20 miles. At that point we alternate weeks—long, easy, long, etc. The easy weeks with less miles are as important (maybe

Making the Most Intense Effort

More rain this week. Fortunately, it came on Friday which was our day off, so we have been staying dry on our runs… so far. It does look like we might be in a bit of rainy pattern for the next week or so. We’ll have to wait and see if our luck holds. I

The Story Continues

A little more than three months; a little less than fourteen weeks; exactly 97 days until the LA Marathon. This week we again upped our training. Sunday’s long run is 13 miles (in 7 weeks we do our first 20 mile long run). Saturday was six miles at marathon pace, and Wednesday was a six