I did it! It wasn’t ideal or pretty, but I finished!
The Cape Cod Marathon is HARD. It’s not a secret that there are lots of hills on the course, but they are often described as “rolling hills.” To me, these rolling hills felt like mountains!
Tag Archives: Marathon Training
Is This Marathon Thing Ever Going to Be Done?
My last post about marathon training really scared me. It was August and I could barely run a few miles. I went to the doctor, got some medicine for my asthma, finally felt better and started training hardcore. (Hardcore for me is waking up at 4:45am to run, even on the weekends. It’s not running really fast or anything cool. It’s basically just being hardcore enough to wake up early and run in the dark).
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Marathon Training: Preparing for My 1st Half
The week following the 10K, I realized that as awful as it was, I really need to stop being depressed about it because the half marathon was happening in 5 weeks. So I needed to pick up the training. I created my own little workout plan running a few days a week with one long run that would increase to 13 miles by the half marathon.
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Marathon Training: May 10K
With five months to go before the marathon, me and the Husband signed up for a 10K in our town. Husband has done this race before and loves it.
The 10K did not go well for me. It was high allergy season here in Connecticut and the 10K race itself was small, mostly locals and apparently you don’t run this race unless you run fast.
Running a Marathon
Running a marathon seems like a pretty solid bucket list idea, right? I would have to guess that it is one of the most universal bucket list items. This goal ended up on my list for several reasons: (1) I had begun running the year before and it gave me a significant boost in self-confidence; (2) my husband had already completed a marathon and that was pretty cool; and (3) it was 2013 and the Boston Marathon bombings had just happened. Continue reading Running a Marathon
