When the wind hit me, it wasn’t just that it slowed me down. It wasn’t just that it blew sand…
For most of my past marathons, I’ve loosely followed 10–16 week training plans by either Jack Daniels or Pete Pfitzinger. To train for The Woodlands Marathon, my most recent marathon, I incorporated a component I read about in Ryan and Sara Hall’s blog: The long…
I’ve just emailed the race coordinators to transfer from the San Francisco Half Marathon to the full. As I realized in an earlier post, triggering muscle cramps during training is very tricky, and leaves me at high risk of injury.
Yesterday, I competed in the oldest relay race in the country, the Tahoe Relays. In it, 7 runners race “legs” of 9–14 miles that circumvent Lake Tahoe, which lies at about 6,000 feet. I ran it with my track club, West Valley.