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NYC Marathon Training: Week 9
Happy Labor Day! We are heading to the beach and doing a bbq with a good friend. Before all that, I want to jot down a few quick thoughts from the past week of training… Wild to me that I am already starting week 10 of training. Last week I ran my highest mileage so…
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NYC Marathon Training: Week 8
Things are slowly but surely beginning to come together. I hit the highest mileage of my training so far and added a fifth day of running. I also was more consistent with doing core work (hello, planks) and had a solid long run where I had my best pace so far. I still struggled with…
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NYC Marathon Training: Week 7
A solid week of training in the books! I had my longest run so far (14 miles) and had a good track workout in the middle of the week. I have to admit- I ended the week with some doubts about my training. I felt behind. Like I needed to be running more and at…
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NYC Marathon Training: Week 5 and 6
Week 5 This week we were on our Kauai trip, so the focus was not on training which was actually really nice. I didn’t do a workout and instead just enjoyed my couple runs on the island and when we got home, I did a couple slow easy runs on tired legs. I can’t wait…
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NYC Marathon Training: Week 4
This past week of training was a bit different as we left for our Hawaii trip early Saturday morning so I had to squeeze 4 days of runs before we left. I was also helping out at VBS at our church, so that added an extra layer of tiredness, but I was proud to still…
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NYC Marathon Training: Week 3
Week 3 of training was so much better than last week! My body is starting to adjust to running more and overall felt so much better this week- not nearly as exhausted as last week. I think the fact that Hudson was in soccer camp in the mornings definitely helped contribute to me not feeling…
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NYC Marathon Training: Week 1
Training for the NYC marathon has officially begun!! Training started July 1st. July 1st also happened to be the day we had to urgently rush our son to the ER after having a complication from a tonsillectomy (long story short: he is all good now, but had to have a second surgery to stop the…
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NYC Marathon Training: Week 2
Seems like the second week of anything always feels so much harder. I think week one I was literally running off the adrenaline of everything going on with Hudson & the start of something new, but it all hit me more in this second week. I was exhausted (ask Lance!). I realized how training for…
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3 Days Before Marathon Thoughts
Marathon day is just a few short days away! I’m feeling excited, ready and nervous. A pretty standard trio of feelings for me leading up to a big race. This training cycle as a whole has been very solid. It’s been unique in the sense that I only ran 5 days a week with one…
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Marathon Training: Recap #3
And just like that, the third phase of training is complete! This phase of training was another solid one. Workouts were a bit of a mixed bag but worked on rolling with it even when they did not match the plan on paper. Long runs also had to get creative with different routes and days…
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