Its been a few days since i’ve written, however I have thankfully made it through the last hard week for this cycle and am gearing up for a stepback this coming week. I completed 2 60-mile weeks in a row, along with a 57 mile week previously. Thats alot of miles (in my opinion, I […]

I got through my second mid-week 12 miler this morning, getting my butt out of bed again at 4am and on the road by 4:14 like last week. I did much better this week by pushing the pace a bit, which I haven’t been doing as faithfully. I did the entire 12 miles in just […]

I’m happy to report that this week is going a little better than last week .. I haven’t had to face any of the struggles that I had dealt with last week. I’m finding though that my pace has slowed quite a bit, especially this morning. I took the normal route I would take for […]

I survived my first 60 mile week, and boy was it brutal. Up until this time I had only ever done up to like 56 miles, but never all the way to 60 … I know you’re thinking ‘its only 4 more miles’, but those miles really make the difference. I’m really beaten up at […]

So I mentioned the other day about how rough this week of training has been, and its slowly continuing on. I had to work on Wednesday night, which meant I never really made up my sleep from being up so early on Wednesday morning for my 12 miler. The sleep on Wed. night was choppy, […]

I got through my first mid-week 12 miler this morning …. getting my butt up at 3:55 and out the door by 4:10 so I can be back in time to leave for work, and BOY, am I tired! The run went well, its just hard getting up so early and working out so hard, […]

After 5 years of running safely on the side of the roads, I took my first wipe-out this morning on my 5-miler. It was really kind of my own fault, but there were some contributing factors that helped facilitate it. First of all, I am okay, no major injury or anything, just scraped my knee […]

I was concerned coming into the weekend about both my back being sore, and my left knee being sore, neither of which bothered me this weekend. In fact, my 20 miler yesterday was one of the better ones that i’ve had in awhile, probably for a couple reasons. First, I think the fact I was […]

So far so good today with resting up for my weekend running … I’m excited because its not supposed to be so hot this weekend, actually its going to be quite cool, which is great. I don’t think I need to be too concerned about dehydration on the 20 miler tomorrow, but I still have […]

I have not had an re-occurrence of the back pain from last Saturday in the 27 miles I ran this week already, so I think thats a good thing. I still intend to scale it back intensity-wise just a bit so that I don’t re injure anything. I made it through to my scheduled day […]