New Jersey Marathon training recap and race goals!

Posted on April 25, 2014 | 8 min read time

Welp, my marathon is just about here! Even though I’ve been training literally the entire year for this race, it kind of feels like it snuck up right up on me, to be honest! Training recap Looking back at my training, I’d said it was solid overall. I ran a lot more miles than I ever have before. I broke my weekly and monthly training distance records with 60 and 213 miles, respectively, and I put myself on pace for a whole lot of miles in 2014. [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training update: week 14

Posted on April 14, 2014 | 1 min read time

Taper is here! Taper is here! Wooo! Last week was a repeat of the previous week’s 60-mile schedule and it was no less grueling. My nine mile runs on Tuesday and Thursday were tough, but the paces were decent. Wednesday’s thirteen miles were a bit of a struggle, but I got them done. My legs are just so damn tired all the time now. The wife and I before our long run on the towpath [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training update: week 13

Posted on April 8, 2014 | 3 min read time

Sixty. That’s how many miles I ran last week! Whhaaaa?!?! I’ve never run that many miles in a week before and I’m actually slightly shocked I pulled it off. Tuesday’s nine miles were extremely solid. I wasn’t expecting that. My legs were still exhausted from the week before’s training, but somehow this run really came together nicely for a sub-goal-marathon pace run. Wednesday was a huge struggle though. [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training update: week 12

Posted on March 31, 2014 | 3 min read time

Look how excited Leela is to take a photo with me to show off my new Oiselle lux side zip! Really? Twelve weeks down already? DAMN! training is flying by! Last week was a small step-back week with 48 miles—following an intense 57 the week before—and I was glad to have it. My legs were pretty tired through most of my mid-week runs, but they held up reasonably well, I guess. [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training update: week 11

Posted on March 24, 2014 | 4 min read time

Oh, you know, just jumping around a bit before my run! All I have to say about last week’s training is that it was EPIC! Literally my best week of training ever! EVER! I broke my weekly distance record by four miles with 57 on the week! And I nailed my first 20-miler this cycle. I started off the week with an easy five-mile recovery run, but by Tuesday, I was ready to put in the work and push myself. [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training update: week 10 and Shamrock Marathon weekend

Posted on March 18, 2014 | 6 min read time

Last week was supposed to be the week I got back to running six days a week and got myself fully on schedule again after my knee issues. Unfortunately, my knee still didn’t feel up to it on Monday so I ended up with just five days of running instead. On Tuesday, I threw 5x1’ fartleks into my eight mile run for my first bit of speed work in a while. [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training update: week 9 (and other things)

Posted on March 10, 2014 | 8 min read time

WHAT A WEEK! Holy crap, last week was busy as hell! Monday I started off with a rest day on Monday. I had five miles on the schedule, but I wanted to give my knee an extra rest day after 29 miles across the previous three days. The plan was to get back to my training plan on Tuesday, but without the speed work, which I would start back up with again this week. [Read More]