B is in the midst of training for her second marathon, so she had to figure out how to get in some long runs while in Buenos Aires (she’ll be up to an 18 mile run this month). After searching the web a bit, she ran across Urban Running Tours which offers a guided running [...]
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On Focus
Focus. That’s been on my mind a lot lately and at least in part over the last couple years.
My pursuit of a sub-5:00 mile got sidetracked a little bit as my Ultimate (frisbee) Summer League came to an end at the beginning of August. On top of Summer League, my day job started to [...]
Fartlek run on Sunday in my VFFs
I was considering doing another mile time trial this past weekend, but ended up just doing a fartlek run with B instead. She downloaded a training podcast from Nike’s “Sport Music” series called My Best 10K: Beginner by former college coach Jay Johnson. It was a 30-minute workout that included 2 speed sessions of 2 [...]
Short run today, no tornadoes
So we had some tornadoes yesterday in the evening which made running less desirable. Today I just went out for a 13 minute run with B (probably a little less than 2 miles) and we walked back.
B is trying to run with her VFFs as well, but had a bit of a bad start [...]
Running in Central Park
I was in New York City this weekend for a wedding and had the opportunity to go for a really nice run in Central Park with a friend who is training for her first half marathon. I’d only been to New York City once before and it was a very brief 1-day business trip, so [...]
Second run in my Vibrams
I just did another quick run after work today. We had to run out to the mall right after dinner, so I didn’t have much time, but you can always squeeze 10 minutes in, right?
I was just looking for 10 minutes with the goal of keeping it as light as possible. I also tried [...]