September was a great month. For starters, I finished up with 231 miles and some change, my most ever. There were a lot of quality miles in there too — Seven were at sub 6:00 pace and a bunch others were sub-7’s. I got a lot of hillwork in, made a return to relay racing, [...]
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Strange day today. Started out with a jog down to the stairs of the Met, where I met up with my old running partner Sarah who was in town for the weekend. We ran into Elizabeth and her friend, chatted for a bit, then went off to the starting line. Sarah’s wave [...] A little less than two weeks ago, I got an email from one of my Green Mountain Relay teammates: HELP! We need a Reach the Beach runner!!! Lucky for me, I had a couple vacation days available and a little money to burn and was able to tell Maria to count me in. [...] My 6 mile run home from work somehow turned into a little over 16. After 2 hours, 7 minutes, and detours to New Jersey then Yankee Stadium, I finally arrived back on my block. I started a little tired and sore from yesterday’s 10 miler, but then about four miles in, everything just began to click [...] Earlier in the summer, before this whole knee injury fiasco and when I thought I was still racing Chicago, I carefully mapped out a plan for my training. When the goal race shifted to Philly, I assumed I would just switch the dates and go from there. Since then, I’ve realized that won’t [...] I managed to finish August with 189.8 miles, my highest monthly total ever. The vast majority of it was slow, unimpressive miles, but I feel good about the steadily increasing volume, especially coming off such a poor June and July. I was stuck in the city the whole month with no vacations, but I took [...] |
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