tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25046524886616081552024-10-25T03:35:01.712-05:00My thoughts and experiences as I journey towards my first half-marathon ... and beyond.Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02936177233943118063noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504652488661608155.post-35374440768759480412009-09-03T16:41:00.000-05:002009-09-03T16:41:00.956-05:00

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Sorry for the long hiatus in posting.After completing the 5 mile run, I attempted an easy 3 mile run several days later. My body just rebelled.I realized that I had been pushing my body way too hard. The mileage was just going up too much too fast for me. I had previously been averaging 6 - 8 miles a week - total. The first week of training I did 12 miles. The second week I did 14.I chose to halt

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Thank goodness for a little rain to cool things down!I arrived at the clubhouse a few minutes before 7 a.m. In my head I was going on and on about whether or not I should even be attempting to do 5 miles. Two days off seemed to have alleviated the worst of my aches and pains, so maybe I was ready to go again.Finally, a little after 7 a.m. we were off. The temperature was right around 75 degrees

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Time: 7:00 p.m.Temperature: 100+ degreesCourse: Outside & HillyDistance: 3 milesTotal Time: 54:14Ugh!I was one of the last two people to finish the mileage - out of 400+ people. It was SO hot! I really tried to keep up with the 16 minute pace leader - and I did, mostly for the first 1.5 miles - but then on the return trip, I was just beat. At one point I even sat down on a bench for about 30

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Distance: 3.25 milesWhere: TreadmillTime: 47 minutesWorkout: 5 minutes warmup (~.2 miles) 39 minutes run (4.3) 3 minutes/ walk (3.6) 2 minutes (2.9 miles) Cooldown 3 minutes (~.15 miles)Thoughts:Today's workout actually kind of sort of almost felt easy. Maybe easy isn't *quite* the right word for it - but definitely felt easier. I think I pretty much managed to keep off my heels the entire time -

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So Saturday morning my friend from the gym and I attended a Chi Running class. The instructor had just become certified a few months ago, and so was still doing classes for free "to get the format down better."Overall, I would say it was well worth it. He really emphasized posture. He had us (6 of us altogether) get with a partner and stand "normally." Then our partner would push us with their

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Okay, on the training schedule today was an "easy" run of 3 miles. Hmm... maybe in about 5 or 6 weeks I'll be able to think of 3 miles as an easy run .. but not just yet.Workout: Easy RunWhere: TreadmillDistance: 3.15 milesTime: 46 minutesI wore my Timex heart rate monitor watch and chest strap today. One thing I found interesting was that every time I took a walking break, my heart rate only

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So the Kickoff meeting for the Half-Marathon program was Wednesday night at 7 p.m. I arrived just a few minutes before it started, and was lucky to find a parking space - even though I had to parallel park. (Ugh.)My first impression on going in was that there were A LOT of people. I also noticed that there were not enough chairs for everyone - maybe 1/2 of the people there had chairs to sit in. I

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Total Time: 40 minutesTotal Distance: 2.5 milesWhere: TreadmillPlan -Warmup: 3 minutes at 3.0 mph; 2 minutes at 3.3 mph - total of 5 minutesWorkout: Walk 2 min at 3.5 mph; Run 3 minutes at 4.5 mph -- total of 30 minutesCooldown: 2 minutes at 3.3 mph; 3 minutes at 3.o mph - total 5 minutesGeneral Thoughts and Observations:I have to say that today's run really felt good. When I first got up this

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Can you spot the marathon runners?

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As I've mentioned before, I was recently introduced to the concept/technique of ChiRunning. After having read the book and tried out using some of the ideas, I really liked it. Being a person who likes to find out all there is to find out about a subject, I started researching on the internet about ChiRunning.First, I found a group on Sparkpeople.com dedicated to people who run using the Chi

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Hi everyone! I wanted to give a report on the 5k race I participated in on the 4th of July.On Friday I received an email letting me know that over 800 people had registered for the race, and that parking was going to be very tight. It was suggested that some people might want to park at the Clubhouse and walk to the race.I knew that I didn't want to get there early enough to get a parking spot by

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A lady at the gym where I work at (and workout with) and I were talking about running a few weeks ago. She was telling me about how she'd had some bad injuries from running too much, and had been told to stop. Well, she wasn't too enthused about that idea, so she started to look for ways to make it possible for her to keep running.What she found was a book called ChiRunning. It proposes a

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Title: The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for WomenAuthor: Dawn DiasPaperback: 220 pagesPublisher: Seal Press; (January 3, 2007)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1580052053ISBN-13: 978-1580052054Dawn Dias is in her mid-twenties. Her idea of strenuous exercise is getting off the couch to find the remote control. Healthy eating consists of eating only half the bag of Cheeto's instead of the whole bag.Then one

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Since making the decision to train for a half-marathon, I have been doing quite a bit of reading on the subject. Most of what I am reading reiterates that if you don't already have a solid base of running, that you should take a longer training time to help avoid injuries.I signed up for a training class with a local running club. This training class is working towards two different

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Hi! My name is Laura. I am a runner. That wasn't always the case though. Some may say that I'm technically still not a runner ... but I get off the couch and I pick my feet up off the ground .. so I think that qualifies me as a runner, whether or not it takes me 15 minutes to run a mile. :DMy story begins in January, 2008. I'd been pretty faithfully exercising 3 or 4 days a week, doing various

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Hi! Thank you for contacting me. I will get back to you as soon as I can.Have a wonderful day!

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