Posts under ‘Fitness Log’

I have exciting news — I’m going to San Francisco for my race!  This week, my aunt told me that she won the lottery for entry to the Nike Women’s Marathon, which gives me a shot of extra motivation to raise the higher minimum.  I’m looking forward to seeing all my friends and family out [...]

This was a glorious week of training.  For the past two weeks, I’ve been running eight mile long runs.  I’ve hit just under a 12-minute mile pace in the end on each, and feel I could go still faster!  However, I still have a tendency to go out too fast, particularly when surrounded by sub-10 [...]

I am so impatient to run again!  I haven’t gotten through a full week of training recently without something getting in the way!
I permitted myself to be a little lazy last Saturday, since I was on a short and awesome trip to visit my best friend in Champaign, IL.  There just weren’t two hours in [...]

Well, I had all the greatest intentions to keep with my training schedule, but these past two weeks have been quite trying.  I am proud to say that though I’ve missed training runs, I haven’t flaked due to insufficient willpower.

Welcome to Week Two, in which a mystery is solved and miracles happen.  My advice to new runners now starts with this:  Find someone knowledgeable to evaluate your form.

I just got back from my first group run this morning with Team In Training!  With their help, I am planning to run the Detroit Free Press Marathon in October.  However, I’m setting my fundraising goal high.  If I do well enough in my early fundraising, I may opt to run in San Francisco’s Nike [...]