Month: December 2013

A good strong push tonight – wasn’t sure where it was going to go but finished realizing I could have started stronger and done even better.  That’s good to know!  Just around 115 training miles to go before Goofy Challenge in January (in just over 3 weeks!). This is the last real tough week and…

Not sure what to think about this run – on one hand it was a half marathon distance faster than my PR but on the other I kept catching myself cheating by holding onto the railing of the treadmill.  So while a strong push I don’t think it truly accurately reflects my current speed level.…

My short run yesterday was delayed because we were painting our daughter’s room and with everything else that was going on I didn’t managed to get to the treadmill until after 8pm.  Of course the run might not have been delayed so much if I hadn’t accidently dropped the paint roller on the carpet. The…

So with today being 4 weeks until our travel day to head to Disney World for the Goofy Challenge in January I figured I wanted to sit down and see where my training has gotten to and see if there are any tweaks to make to my training. Before I even start looking at the…

Head just wasn’t in it tonight.  I missed my run yesterday due to a Christmas concert – 2nd concert night in a row!  We were at our daughter’s on Tuesday and then our son’s last night.  With a bunch of other stuff going on it was just too late to get on the treadmill last…

I wasn’t sure when I started the run how it was going to go.  It was scheduled as a speed training run but my thighs felt quite tight after the 20 miler on Sunday.  I was tempted to just take it easy but with Goofy Challenge just over 4 weeks away I knew I had…

That was pretty mind numbing.  Getting in one of my 20 milers for the Goofy Challenge in January – wanted to do it outside but the lovely Winnipeg winter weather was having none of that.  It was -40 with the windchill this morning and considering that equates to “exposed skin can freeze in 5-10 minutes”…

So with the brutal temperatures when I got up this morning (-29 / -38 C // -20 / -36 F) I decided I was not going to survive running 10 miles outside.  I might be crazy (or Goofy as the case may be) but I don’t think I am quite at that level of crazy.…

Tough run tonight – needed to do 5 miles for my Goofy Challenge training and I wanted to do some hill work while I was on the treadmill but after about a mile in the backs of my thighs kept trying to cramp up.  They never did fully cramp but I kept having to slow…

It was a rough start tonight – legs were very tight and it took a good 5-10 minutes to get things worked out there but I managed to push through.  I can tell I was running pretty tight though as my back feels like it is ready to have a good spasm – hopefully that…