paulradcliffe.me archive
Category: General Running and/or Fitness
November 13, 2015
October Review
This report is a little late, but an important milestone in the year, nonetheless. This one last month to prove to myself that I was a marathoner. This month was highlighted by some gruelingly long runs: 25km, 27km, then a half-marathon. I know other marathoners usually swear by having one or two twenty-milers in their season, but having lost several weeks to a foot injury, I had to back off a bit this season. I wrote a review of how much I enjoyed using myfitnesspal. I will probably continue to use it. And of course, I ran the New[…continue reading]
October 30, 2015
New York City Marathon Goals
Start spreading the news I am leaving today I want to be a part of it New York, New York… It’s been a long road since I found out I got into the New York City Marathon back in March. It’s been a long, grueling summer with lots of ups and downs of training. At one point I wrote that I had 173 days until New York, but the countdown is finally ticking to an end. It will be my 10th full marathon. Many of you have sent me well-wishes and wished me good luck. Thank you! I’m going to need them[…continue reading]
October 15, 2015
Nutrition Tracking with MyFitnessPal
As I mentioned in my September review, I’ve been using MyFitnessPal.com diligently for almost a month now. It has been a really eye-opening experience and another motivator for my weight loss journey. Adding it All Up The principle is pretty simple: Create a free profile, log into the website, and enter each and every item of food that you eat and every exercise that you do. This sounds really hard, but it gets much easier after the first day. On the first day I took photos of all my food and the nutrition labels so that I could[…continue reading]
