Philly Training: Week 5

Last week marked my hardest week of training yet. It definitely left me tired, but feeling a lot stronger. During the week, I squeezed in two tempo workouts and a long run with a significant portion at marathon pace. Mix in an overall lack of sleep over the weekend, and I’m definitely ready for this … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 5

Philly Training: Week 4

It’s the point in my training when I’ve been running enough miles, and more importantly, enough hard miles, to lead to niggles and fatigue here and that. The fatigue has subsided a bit since I became more consistent in taking my iron supplements, the niggles, though, are harder to deal with. One of the weirder … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 4

Philly Training: Week 3

I can’t believe I’m already one-sixth of the way through training! It simultaneously feels like this training cycle is going by so fast…and yet so slow. 15 weeks is still a very long time. And, to be honest, I’m already starting to feel it a little bit. I’ve been so tired for the past week. … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 3

Philly Training: Week 2

I’ve really slacked off this week! I should have had this post up on Monday…but I got lazy. I don’t even have a good excuse for it. To get down to it, the second week of training went well, despite the need to rearrange some things because of a bachelorette party and a failed alarm … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 2

Philly Training: Week 1

Last week, I completed week one of an 18-week training plan for the Philadelphia Marathon. I’m feeling good about how I spent my time returning from my tibial stress fracture last winter, and I'm optimistic about this fall race. I've been reluctant to share my goal time with others, as I've been worried that people would … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 1

Testing Myself…the 10K

It is so easy to feel frustrated and slow when returning from injury. Regaining fitness is so much harder than losing it. You want to push yourself, but your body isn’t ready for it. Gains seem so incremental. It is so hard to focus on how far you’ve come, when all you can think about … Continue reading Testing Myself…the 10K