Denial is often viewed as a negative word – one that implies that someone is hiding from an apparent truth. We’ve all been there. If you are a special needs parent, you know exactly what I am talking about – that stretch of time when you kept telling youself, no, not my kid…not my child…he/she [...]
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Denial is Good
Posted in training, Uncategorized, tagged denial, Furman FIRST, running on May 1, 2012 | 3 Comments »
21 Weeks – Boston 13.1 with Team Up with Autism Speaks
Posted in training, tagged autism, Autism Speaks, boston 13.1, running, Team Up! with Autism Speaks on April 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Some of you may still be waffling. Some of you may be thinking, it’s too late. Luau’s 26 24 week plan doesn’t work for me anymore. If only there were a 21-week plan to get me to the finish line on September 16th, then, THEN I’d walk with Jess at the Boston 13.1 Team Up [...]
If You Don’t Know…
Posted in training, Uncategorized, tagged ask, ask a trainer, exercise, fitness machine, if you don't know, local gym, running, training on April 10, 2012 | 6 Comments »
My new training program has called for a lot of cross-training and some timed runs that I find easier to do on a treadmill. Because of this, I have found myself going to the local gym way more than I have in the past. I have probably been to the gym more in the last [...]
24 Weeks – Boston 13.1 with Team Up with Autism Speaks
Posted in motivation, training, Uncategorized, tagged boston 13.1, Half-Marathon, running, Team Up! with Autism Speaks, walking on March 31, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Tomorrow is April 1st. It is the first day of Autism Awareness Month. On Monday, World Autism Awareness Day, hundreds of landmarks and millions of homes, including our own, will be lit up blue. I hope you will consider lighting it up blue with the rest of us. Tomorrow will also be exactly 24 weeks [...]
Progress – the Quincy Half Marathon
Posted in boston marathon, race recap, racing, training, tagged boston marathon, BQ, cross training, first marathon training program, Furman FIRST, Half-Marathon, incremental improvement, marathon training, marathon training program, Pfitz, Quincy Half Marathon, race recap, race report, step in the right direction, Sugarloaf Marathon on March 30, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I remember way back in high school when I would get up in the mornings before a big test – I’d be a little nervous, wondering if I had studied what I had needed to, wondering if I’d remember anything… …that’s how I felt two Sundays ago when I woke up before the Quincy Half [...]
Setback
Posted in training, Uncategorized, tagged cold, flu, missed runs, running, set back, training on March 5, 2012 | 7 Comments »
It was only a week, but I was on a roll. Speed-training, followed by swimming, followed by a tempo run, followed by rowing – I felt great! All that was left of my first week of training under the FIRST program was to get my fast-paced 14-miler in this past weekend. So much for planning. [...]
Changing Horses
Posted in motivation, boston marathon, training, tagged boston marathon, running, training, Sugarloaf, changing horses, midstream, dance with the one that brought you, stay the course, Pfitz, Advanced, Furman FIRST on March 1, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Stay the course… Don’t change horses midstream… Dance with the one that brought you… *** On October 3rd, 2010, I ran the fastest 26.2 miles of my life. My 3:19:19 at the Smuttynose Marathon qualified me for Boston 2011 and at least got me in the registration door for Boston 2012 (though ultimately I fell [...]
The Toughest Ten Minutes of the Day
Posted in health, motivation, training, tagged body in motion, couch potatoes, Inertia, motivation, principles of physics, running, toughest ten minutes on January 31, 2012 | 8 Comments »
4:10 AM – the alarm on my phone goes off – a mix of a loud snoring sound and the phone vibrating on my nightstand. 4:10 AM. Ugh. Am I really gonna do this? Do I really WANT to do this? 10 miles? Really? It’s 30° outside. It’s cold. It’s dark. I could just hit [...]
I am not Tim Pawlenty
Posted in boston marathon, motivation, training, tagged finish line, iowa straw poll, lactate threshold, marathon pace, marathon training, quitting, running, Sugarloaf Marathon, Tim Pawlenty on January 18, 2012 | 7 Comments »
If you don’t follow politics at all, you may not know who Tim Pawlenty is. He is a former governor of the state of Minnesota who decided to run for President. He was part of the large field of Republican candidates who were vying for their party’s nomination. Last summer, after finishing a distant 3rd [...]
Clean Slate
Posted in training, tagged clean slate, mojo, New Year, resolution, running, training on January 9, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I have never been big on New Year’s Resolutions. I find them to be somewhat silly – seriously, if you want to do or change something, why not do it the moment you think of it? Why wait for the turning of the calendar? That being said, I must admit, there is something about wiping [...]
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