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Just checking back on this blog to see what I wrote about finishing my first marathon. Good thing I didn't read through it again before starting my most recent marathon training regimen. ^_^ So I've got my second marathon coming up in a week and a half. I'm running the Napa Valley Marathon on...

Once again two weeks have flown by. I can't believe the marathon is only five days away :swoon: the anxiety is increasing, especially since I have been struggling with an injury for the past three weeks. I've come to realize that I probably over trained a bit in that I only took one day of rest...

Well this was the hardest week of the training. I'm fighting a slight injury to my hips, especially the right side. I decided to take Monday off and I cut back the miles on my midweek run. The big run of 20 miles was on Sunday. So hard to run that far and for so much time alone. My husband had...

Once again two weeks have flown by and I am down to only four weeks left before the big day. Week six I had to run 18 miles...the farthest I have ever run. We had to run on Easter morning because Saturday was busy with a Lacrosse game and yard work. The run ended up going fairly well and it was...

I've got some catching up to do. I've already completed both weeks 8 and 7, I've just been forgetting to post my training log in this blog. I'm growing quite tired or running, not so much physically tired but mentally tired. It's hard to keep putting in the long miles and I can tell that the...

It was bound to happen at some point in the training...I got sick. I was doing so well too. I didn't end up missing that much running, I just hate being sick. My 13-year-old son gave me his cold. I started feeling bad on Monday and by Tuesday I was feeling awful. I had to take Tuesday and...

Training is going very well. I still feel like my feet are in cement on some of my runs, but at least my hips are no longer hurting as much as they did. The biggest mistake I made this week was wearing a pair of shorts on my longest run that I had never worn on a long run before. The shorts...

Well I reached week eleven...and I'm still on schedule and haven't missed a run yet. This week was good, the weather was cooperative (no rain and not much wind). My hips have been hurting, but ice wraps help (and ibuprofen). This week the long run moved up to a half marathon...thirteen miles. We...

I forgot to come add my weekly update for the past two weeks. Kept meaning to do it but got busy. The past two weeks were good, mostly outdoor runs...a few cold, a few windy, and one pretty warm. Saw a roadrunner on one of the runs, that was kind of cool. He ran across the path and stood on the...

Well this weeks wasn't as good as last week. It rained a lot this week so I ended up doing my mid-week runs on the treadmill. That was fine, although a bit boring staring at the same poster on the wall. Then the long run on Saturday came and I had to head outside...can't do 10 miles on a...

Last week was a good week. I was very surprised at how well the nine mile run went. I walked every two miles for one minute, drank some water (mixed with gatorade) and ate a Shot Blok at mile 4. Wasn't all that sore the next day either. Took Sunday off (my day of rest...a reward for working out...