Hello again, dear readers! In the months since our last checkin, I decided to finally register for my second 50K race. My first was at Pineland, in New Gloucester Maine, in 2023. That didn’t go as well as I had hoped, and I vowed at the time that it would not be my only 50KContinue reading “9/18/25: Racing as Training”
Category Archives: training
Why I Decided to Fire My (Virtual) Coach
Last August, I broke my Garmin watch while playing catcher for my “old men” baseball team. In 2019 I bought a Forerunner 35 as my first runner’s watch, one that I selected because it was the simplest model available at the time. I wanted a watch that would record my distance and pace, and captureContinue reading “Why I Decided to Fire My (Virtual) Coach”
4/22/24 Training Update: Taper Time
Two weeks (minus one day) to race day, and the taper is in full effect. After fifteen weeks of building up mileage, with a cutback every three weeks, it’s now time to rest and recover from all that effort, and maintain health and fitness with lower mileage and intensity runs. The taper mirrors the trainingContinue reading “4/22/24 Training Update: Taper Time”
4/14/24 Training Update, and Kaynors Sap Run
I’ve officially completed 15 weeks of the 18-week training plan, and things are going fairly well. Yesterday was the last long run of the cycle. And now we’re on to taper for three weeks before the race on May 5. This is my second marathon. For the first one in 2022 I followed a 12-weekContinue reading “4/14/24 Training Update, and Kaynors Sap Run”
3/11/24: Time for an Update
2023 turned out to be not-the-bloggiest year for me. I’m planning to change that for 2024. First on the agenda, training updates. In January I registered to run my second marathon, the Maine Coast Marathon in Wells, Maine. Pretty much as soon as my first marathon ended in 2022 I knew I wanted to runContinue reading “3/11/24: Time for an Update”
5/18/22 Training Update: VCM in 11 Days
Ideally I would have started writing about this training plan a while back, but life y’know. I’ve written many times about my plans to run the half-and-half relay at the Vermont City Marathon. The first attempt was postponed due to Covid-19, then I deferred twice, the second time because my running partner Brock had aContinue reading “5/18/22 Training Update: VCM in 11 Days”
12/25/21 Training Update: 1,500 Miles Achieved
Last night’s Christmas Eve run among the luminaries left me just two miles short of my goal to run 1,500 miles in 2022. Winter weather – snow and freezing rain – led me to stay in Vermont rather than drive the 120 miles or so to my father’s house in Maine. Left alone on aContinue reading “12/25/21 Training Update: 1,500 Miles Achieved”
12/9/21 Training Update: The Road to 1,500
Back in January I set a goal to run 1,500 miles this year. I set a goal of 1,010 miles last year (“1010 in 2020”), which I exceeded by nearly 25%, and I wanted to stretch that again. I added 20% to last year’s final tally of 1,250 to arrive at the 2021 goal. TheContinue reading “12/9/21 Training Update: The Road to 1,500”
10/25/21 Training Update: Some Next-Level Shit
When I first started running, it was pretty much a solitary endeavor. While others may have inspired me to, for example, sign up for my first race or two, I for the most part was doing the actual running on my own. This changed in the second half of 2019 when I started joining CVRContinue reading “10/25/21 Training Update: Some Next-Level Shit”
Training Update 8/23/21: Bolduc and Sunnybrook Long Run
For someone who is supposed to be training for a 15-mile trail run in three weeks and a half marathon two weeks after that, my planning isn’t always ideal. Sometimes this is impacted by things outside of my control, like weather and other obligations – in my case, my baseball team’s schedule. On September 11Continue reading “Training Update 8/23/21: Bolduc and Sunnybrook Long Run”
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