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Week One: One great tempo run, and new shoes

February 28, 2011.Reading time 7 minutes.

Week 1: Monday: 25 min. yoga Tuesday: 3.83 mile run (easy) Wednesday: 50 min. bike (about 9.5 mi); low resistance/high rpm Thursday: 4.07 mi tempo run (1 mi warm up, 2 miles at tempo, 1.07 mile cool down) Friday: 17 min. bike (about 5.25 mi) warm up; leg workout: single-leg squats (4×10); regular squats (4×10); […]

Doubting my abilities

February 3, 2011.Reading time 7 minutes.

I’m starting to have doubts. I know that’s not really true. I just had a bad running day. Which, lately, has been all too common. It seems I’ll have one really solid or even great run. And then half a dozen really awful ones. Today was the latter group. On Tuesday, we had freezing rain […]