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”
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9/5/20: CVR Participation Series Adamant Half Marathon
With weeks of preparation in my pocket, and the CVR Participation Race Series coming to an end, I felt ready to go for the final race, the Adamant Half Marathon. My anticipation and excitement for the race only increased in the days beforehand, as a handful of fellow CVR club members popped up on StravaContinue reading “9/5/20: CVR Participation Series Adamant Half Marathon”
9/1/20 Training Update: Adamant About Preparation
I’ve been writing pretty much all summer about the CVR Participation Race series: ten races were cancelled this summer due to Covid-19, and so the club, Central Vermont Runners, said “run the courses anyway and you’ll be entered into a prize raffle.” By the end of July, I had pretty much all of them checkedContinue reading “9/1/20 Training Update: Adamant About Preparation”
7/13/20 Training Update, which includes some talk of cycling
It’s just miles right now, and maybe a little too complacently. Good miles, sometimes even fun miles. Hilly miles. But just miles, and not a lot of them at a time. This isn’t a bad thing, necessarily, running 4-5 miles at a time. I’m still recording 20-25 miles per week, and I’ve hit 100 milesContinue reading “7/13/20 Training Update, which includes some talk of cycling”
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