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Category: General Running and/or Fitness
November 21, 2013
Which Spring Marathon Should I Do?
I’ve committed myself to the Walt Disney World Dopey Challenge, the Chilly Half-Marathon and the Around The Bay 30k. In fact, I have high hopes of breaking my old Half-Marathon PB of 2:03:22. I’m also strongly entertaining the idea of tackling a full-marathon in May and hopefully beating my full-marathon PB of 4:34:44. The question I ask myself is which spring marathon do I want to race? I’d love to do another World Major and tick another one off my list. However: I’ve already done London I haven’t qualified for Boston Toyko is too soon (February 23, 2014… maybe in 2015??) Berlin,[…continue reading]
November 19, 2013
Dopey Training: Week 1, Really!
I’ve finished what I’m calling Week 1 of my Dopey Training. There were weeks -1 and 0, but I look at those as ramp-up weeks. This is the first week that felt really serious. And there’s very little of November left, so all I have left is December and then it’s time for the Walt Disney World Dopey Challenge. It feels like it will be here REALLY soon! (I find I use the word “really” a lot in this post. I’m really sorry) Dopey Health Stats Weight: 210.6 lbs Body Fat Percent: 27.6 % Resting Heart Rate: 56 bpm Average[…continue reading]
November 12, 2013
Dopey Training: Week 0
Here another update of what I hope will become regular installments of my Dopey training. My clinic starts tonight and so I consider my first run with my clinic as the start of Week 1 of Dopey Training. Dopey Health Stats Resting Heart Rate: 52 bpm Weight: 209.0 lbs Body Fat Percentage: 28.5% (I’ll add hours of sleep and a flexibility metric next week) I didn’t get as many miles in this week as I expected, but they were higher intensity miles which I guess I needed. I also got back in the gym for the first time since[…continue reading]
