Category: Ultrarunning

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Deal of The Week: How to reach goals

Running Ironman Lake Placid

Do you make deals with yourself? I seem to do it on a daily basis. It’s how I negotiate outcomes that I might not be able to do daily.

Today’s deal is that I need to follow my 50 mile training plan from today to Sunday. Exactly. Just miles on my feet. That’s it – easy – right? Well, not exactly. This is what the training week  looks like:

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Actual Miles Scheduled Miles
0 2 4 6 0 14 8 34 34

The deal of the week is that I just need to do it:  make it happen or drop out of the 50 Mile race in June.

I have a lot of experience of dropping out of races before and during. While it is difficult to do and I wrestle my brain and ego for hours and days, at the end of the the day I’m a realist. I have big dreams and big plans, and I believe that I can do anything I set my mind to. However,  I’m a realist and practicalist.

So here we go….. let’s get this training done, recover, figure out the vegan recovery food and get to Wachusett Mountain trail run in June.

Running Inspiration

Cheers to Planning & Executing the next goal! #run50miles

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Track Workout Part 2

Yesterday was my first track workout in a long time but I couldn’t remember exactly when it was. Thanks to Facebook Memories, I learned this morning it was two years ago!

Today is a recovery day so I swam 1,200 yards at the Concord YMCA. There were some fast swimmers in the lanes next to me.

Happy Friday.

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Thursday Track Workout

I haven’t done a track workout in many years. This morning while I was deciding on a route, I remembered the Concord High School Track was about a mile away.

I only had to run 4 today so I thought it would be fun. Fun and Hard, of course. Here’s what it looked like.

http://www.movescount.com/moves/move159318659

Tomorrow is a rest day; or for me – I’m heading to the pool.

Happy Training Day. #abt