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I’m going to keep you in suspense about the Soggy Feet while I digress… Now that I have my race schedule set, I have started a training plan for my first ‘A’ race: the Rev 3 Tri Half Iron race in Connecticut. I am doing that race as part of Team Trakkers 2009. I’m following [...]
Eight inches of snow fell yesterday in North Carolina yesterday! We have not seen this much snow in several years. It’s always such a wonderful treat! I decided to go out for a run, and I discovered that I love running in the snow! I was not cold at all! Was wearing all tech fabric [...]
Ran two loops of Duke Forest trail. Very hilly, like the Duke 1/2 course. Overall workout: 146 avg hr / 162 max. Nice thing about the trail, is no power lines to mess up my hr numbers! I made a critical discovery today! First half, I listened to Depeche Mode’s Playing the Angel CD. Nice [...]
This year’s edition of the Brooks Racer ST3 are green. These shoes are wicked fast! They remind me of the Green Goblin – the arch enemy of Spiderman. The Green Goblin was wicked and fast, right? I’ve been wearing Brooks Racer ST3 shoes since last December, for races and speed/tempo training. I bought them for [...]
Yesterday I ran my standard 9 mile route in reverse. I wanted to do the last mile of my long run at ‘race pace’ on a flat section, and reversing this course made it so that the last mile was flat. My goal for the workout was to stay in zone 2 until the last [...]
