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My running buddies My morning runs usually consists of running a mile with Marshall, then a second mile with Wrigley. It gets them both some needed exercise as they are young energetic dalmatians and it gets me to run twice as far. Unfortunately, for the past few days Marshall has been sick. He was throwing [...] Although I must admit, I’m not ready to make any land speed records, I have been able to increase my speed over the last few workouts. During both Sunday’s run and today’s I threw in a few fartleks – running all out for a sort distance, then dropping my pace to recover. [...] I am very proud of myself for keeping up my training through my cold. Now it’s time to pick up the pace. I did some research on how to get faster, and here are a few tips I’ve learned: One of the best ways to gain speed is with fartleks. A fartlek is a workout where you run faster [...] It’s probably bad that a training accomplishment makes me think of a song from a musical. But it did! Yesterday, I was able to run the entire two miles with no walking breaks, which hasn’t happened for quite a few years. And the entire time, all I could think of was the song from “My [...] January has come to a close, and I am proud to say that I did something (ran or walked) every day! My mileage total for the month was 45.5 miles (which is equal to a marathon plus 19.3 miles). I’m sure that’s a new high for me – EVER! I’m still extremely excited about the Beach2Battleship. [...] After fighting a cold for the last week, and not getting any running done, (I did walk every day….even when I didn’t want to) I decided that I had to get back into my training or I would be way behind. So today, I ran. I could have used this today I didn’t go as far [...] Since it is still early in my training, every other day is a rest day. This will change in about 2 weeks, and I will only have 2 rest days a week, then as training progresses, that will drop to one. On my rest days I don’t fully rest, I walk. There are two reasons [...] Remember that commercial where everyone was swimming in caramel? I don”t remember what it was for, but I do remember the noise made when the swimmers landed in the pool. (As an aside, i hate loud food noises…..) ANYWAY, I did not go swimming today, but the second mile of my run did feel like [...] OK, so when I first typed the title of this blog, I typed “So Fat, So Good”. Probably not the best title, although it does go along with what I’m trying to accomplish. I can honestly say I’ve been out running or walking every day this year. Even yesterday, when the temperature was in the 20’s. [...] Today I did my first workout using Map My Fitness. Map My Fitness is an app that I downloaded to my phone (for free) that keeps track of my workout while I am running or cycling or whatever. It kept track of my distance, speed, time and route. I can even see the elevation changes [...] |
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