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[bighundo1hunnidswaggblock]

[asomegirls]

[realchrisilluminati]

August is over and my streak of 100+ months hits four. Barely.⁣ ⁣ The month began the same as others but included a photoshoot for my website dedicated to running (link in my bio) with a promising young photog, Amalie (@ams_hindash). Her work is incredible (photo in the top left), and it’s inspiring to see a person just entering her first year of high school take an art like photography so seriously. ⁣ ⁣ Hopefully, someday she becomes a world-renown photojournalist, and I can brag and say, “yeah, she once took photos of me running around a park.” ⁣ ⁣ The temps and my average daily miles dropped mid-month. I decided to take an entire week off from running for two reasons. ⁣ ⁣ First, the kids stayed over from an entire week, and I didn’t have the time to run for an hour each day. We spent the week day-tripping including a drizzly afternoon taking in a few horse races. ⁣ ⁣ I dropped the kids off to their Mom on Sunday and immediately hit the road. I needed 25 miles in a week to break 100 for the month. ⁣ ⁣ I broke up the days of long runs with a few interval workouts with friends and a running group. Shout out to Natalie (@runf.i.t) and her Wednesday night crew kicking my ass in the best way possible. ⁣ ⁣ I needed 10 miles on August 31st. With the help of another running comrade and comfortable weather conditions, I logged in over 10 and hit my monthly goal. ⁣ ⁣ On tap for this month - prepping for a Ragnar in October and my first official half marathon in November. ⁣ ⁣ See ya out there. ⁣ ⁣ — ⁣ ⁣ #runner #fitness #training #runners #running #instarunners #runningmotivation #runningaddict #roadrunning #happyrunning #runningclub #runningman #runninginspiration #runninglife https://www.instagram.com/p/B16yeekgCDQ/?igshid=97hgngwnid8f

[radrunnerdad]

Goodbye 3.1....Hello 3.2!

Well – another year has passed and I turned 32 over the weekend! I used last week as a very large down week due to me getting the stomach bug early in the week, but was lucky enough to get two runs in. Thursday was 3.1, the last run as a 31 year old. Friday was 3.2, the first run as a 32 year old. Trending faster as I’m getting older? Sure!

This year, especially this fall, has been kind of a crap shoot. Marathon training for Whistle stop had a big halt due to home and work stress that led to me actually being smart and just shutting it down completely.

Since then I’ve been building a base as much as I can to get started on a spring marathon but not without even more issues coming up. We’ve had house issues, we’ve had stomach bugs, we’ve had just about everything under the sun, but guess what? We are persevering!

As some people may know, the Boston Qualifying times have been dropped 5 minutes faster per age group. This really upset me initially but thinking through the change has got me motivated to try and push myself even harder to accomplish a sub 3:00 marathon. I’m going to need to be hyper focused during training, but I’ve come up with a schedule through the next couple months to really build my base up so when the hard work comes, its just really speed work added in and not ramping up mileage as well.

What do I plan on doing? KISS – keep it simple stupid! I need to let my body adjust to the training that I’m going to be putting forth and will be sticking at a max distance for 3 weeks total and then upping it by 5 miles all the while not even looking at speedwork. Similar to the following:

W1, W2, W3, W4 – 40 miles, 45 miles, 45 miles, Down week

W5, W6, W7, W8 – 45 miles, 50 miles, 50 miles, Down week

W9, W10, W11, W12 – 50 miles, 55 miles, 55 miles, Rest week

Week 12 will lead into a pretty close to complete rest week, but soon after real marathon training will begin. I think a few of the Dubuque Running Club members are leaning towards the Illinois Marathon in late April as its a great course, usually good weather and pretty close for travel.

On a side note, I got accepted into Honey Stinger hive for the 3rd year in a row! I’ve recently picked up their gel flasks and the bulk Gold and its been working really well to dilute it down to drink easier on longer runs.

Expect to see more posts from here again as I am wagering war with the marathon! Excited to start this training again and really pushing myself to the limits!

Goodbye 3.1….Hello 3.2! was originally published on RadRunnerDad

[andlambsbecomelions]

sprint triathlon w4d5

annnnnd it sucked. this run was awful. literally nothing good from it. I knew when I woke up this morning I should probably take a rest day but was like no I should run like my schedule. I walked twice and only did half the distance I was supposed to :( I usually plan my rest day the day before my long run and I should definitely keep doing that

But then I got vegan ice cream at this new ice cream place near my house, which made everything better. So wins and losses I guess. Also my watch keeps doing this thing where it says I hit a certain distance then when I finish the distance is subtracted by like .2 miles? idk

total miles: 25.5

[ramblings-of-a-reluctant-runner]

A hot and sunny 5k with running club ☀️💧🏃🏻‍♀️ So hot, in fact, that I joined the #sportsbrasquad outdoors for the first time 💪🏼

[bighundo1hunnidswaggblock]

[andlambsbecomelions]

cute pic from friday and dinner tonight. My swim today was much harder after my run yesterday since I was so sore but I got it done 🤛🏻 triathlon training week two has started 😋 anddd I'm getting better at breathing during freestyle!