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Tag: Training
December 10, 2012
Tannenbaum 10k Race Report
Date Event Goal Time Chip Time Gun Time 2012/12/02 Tannenbaum 10k <60:00 58:40 59:21 A couple of weeks ago I ran the Tannebaum 10k in the Toronto Beaches area. I had run the Tannenbaum 10k in 2010 but the course was very different then. I signed up for this race on a whim because I knew some other people from my local Running Room who were going to be doing it too. The race is essentially the home race for the Toronto Beaches Runners Club. I think of them as a pretty intimidating and impressive group. The race has a feel[…continue reading]
September 19, 2012
Yellow is my colour this fall
I guess yellow is my colour this fall. Or maybe gold? It’s nice that I get these shirts long before race day so that I can train in them before my respective races. There is a superstition that you shouldn’t wear a race shirt until the race because they’re technically finishers shirts and you haven’t finished yet. But these are almost uniforms, so I want to train in them to know how they feel and get used to them. On the left is my Team LiveSTRONG shirt that I’ll be wearing for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on October[…continue reading]
September 11, 2012
Classic Overtrain
Recently, I demonstrated exactly what happens when overtraining. I got the moodiness, lack of performance and illness in spades! It’s no mystery why I wound up in this situation: Work had been unusually difficult for the last month. I’m used to being out of the office a day or two a week with short site visits and walking around construction sites. Over this month I was out 3-4 times a week, in really hot weather wearing very hot safety gear and heavy steel toe-boots. One day involved walking all over a carhouse checking systems. My pedometer said I took more[…continue reading]
