Pace your half marathon with a smart strategy to help ensure you have a successful race. The longer your race distance is, the more important pacing becomes. By planning out your entire distance, you ensure that you don’t burn all of your energy in the first few miles when the Continue Reading
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Weekend Wrap up & Weekly Goals
Good morning! Gosh, I haven’t been able to blog since Thursday…yikes! We’re going camping this week, from Wednesday till Monday, so I won’t be able to blog either without Wifi. I may schedule some posts to go up, we’ll see if I have time to do that before we go. Continue Reading
Lucky Run PR & Weekly Goals
Happy Monday!! Yes….I PR’d AGAIN this weekend!! I’m on a roll! Saturday was the We Run Lucky Run. I ran the 10K with my friend Anne Marie. We had a blast and she did really well. This was only her 2nd race and she had worked a 12 hour shift Continue Reading
Half Marathon Training {Day 6} | Iowa City Runner
Good afternoon!!! I hope if you’re in the midwest you’re warm!! It’s freezing outside! We’re supposed to see wind chills between -20 and -25 tonight and 3-7 inches of snow Monday into Tuesday. BRRRRRR!!! It’s going to be like this all week too, bitter cold temps. So thankful I can Continue Reading
Marathon Training {Day 5} | Iowa City Runner
Well, today was the infamous “long run”. Problem is, I didn’t sleep last night at all, I got to bed about 5am, thanks to my RLS. So today’s run was tough. I walked much more than I would have wanted to. It probably didn’t help that I worked on legs Continue Reading