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Weekly Recap: Hood-to-Coast
Countdown to B2B: 9 weeks Just for the record, this is NOT my start of the never-ending, on-every-blog Hood-to-Coast posts! I wanted to recap the week first, then tomorrow, I will bombard you with all...
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Weekly Recap: The Aftermath
Countdown to B2B: 8 weeks We interrupt the regularly scheduled Hood to Coast post for a little weekly training update… The theme of this week was lack of motivation. After returning from the most...
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Weekly Recap: Hamburg Week 1
Countdown to B2B: 7 weeks I have to say, I am a little embarrassed that I am posting yet another weekly recap before finishing my Hood to Coast recaps. Between travel and choosing to READ blogs instead...
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Weekly Recap: Hamburg Week 2
Countdown to B2B: 6 weeks Nothing spectacular or any real low points this week. It was a solid week of training for running and biking and yet another light week on swimming (tough with no pool...
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Weekly Recap: Stepback (kind of)
Countdown to B2B: 5 weeks (Week of September 17) The stepback week really came at a good time. I finally found my training motivation and was getting on a roll, but my legs were a little fatigued after...
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Weekly Recap: Peak Week (kind of)
Countdown to B2B: 4 weeks (Week of September 24) Just like last week was a “kind of” stepback week, this week was “kind of” the first peak week. A little schedule flopping to make things work with...
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Weekly Recap: Final Peak
Countdown to B2B: 3 weeks (Week of October 1) The week can pretty much be summarized by…fatigue. I definitely was feeling the volume from last week as I moved into the final peak week, especially in my...
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Random Musings
As you can imagine, now that I am within the 2 week window of my race, my thoughts are starting to get a little crazy. I won’t go into details about how I get butterflies every time I think about the...
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Weekly Recap: Half Taper
Countdown to B2B: 2 weeks (Week of October 8) “Half” taper is literally what my training book called this week. The volume did cut back (about 3 hours less than last week), but with the same number of...
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Weekly Recap: Race Week
This isn’t the race report, yet! All (way too many words) of it is complete, but I am hoping for some race pics to be posted early this week so I can include them, since I don’t have any spectator...
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USAT Nationals Week 7: Paducah, Marathon Training & Atlanta
4 weeks to go… Yikes! As of this week, only one month to go! It seems like I JUST started training. This week was a lesson in balance, as I traveled to Paducah, Kentucky Monday afternoon until...
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USAT Nationals Week 8: Managing Volume & Chicago RnR 5k
3 weeks till race week… If you saw my comment on the totals at the end of last week’s training log, you know that I had a bit of a realization. Last weeks’ training (for an Olympic Distance race) put...
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USAT Nationals Week 9: Holiday Man Tri
2 weeks till race week… Overall, this was the lowest volume week I have had in 5 weeks. That is primarily because I cut back some of the swim & bike workouts to prepare for Sunday’s race and also...
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USAT Nationals Week 10: Making it Work
1 week till race week… I didn’t anticipate that I would be posting yet another weekly recap and still no race report for the Holiday Man Triathlon. It is in the works, but life has been a bit crazy...
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USAT Nationals Week 11: Race Week
RACE WEEK It was a bit up and down this week. My legs felt far too tired early in the week to be racing my goal triathlon on Saturday. I made some adjustments to the workouts, took a complete day of...
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NYC Marathon Week 5: Recovery
12 Weeks to go… Since Saturday’s race marked the end of triathlon racing season for me, I expected to jump full force into marathon training this week. I had visions of a 35+ mile week with a 13-mile...
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NYC Marathon Week 6: All of the running!
11 Weeks to go… After nearly 3 full months of light running, then triathlon training, then more recovery, this felt like the first week where running was the focus again. And no surprise, that makes me...
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NYC Marathon Week 7: Do Work.
10 Weeks to go… This was a week of just putting my head down and getting the runs done. No travel. No crazy schedule to work around. Just doing the mileage. My legs were dead from last week and the big...
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NYC Marathon Week 8: Rebound
9 Weeks to go… After last Saturday’s craptastic long run, I felt like I needed to rebound with my workouts and my (cutback) long run this week to gain some confidence back. The onset of cooler temps...
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NYC Marathon Week 9: All the Hillz
7 Weeks to go… So many good things this week! First, I hit 49.6 miles (totally should have done another 0.4). As a former (very) low mileage runner, 50 is still a milestone for me when it happens and I...
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