The weekend in Chicago was brutally hot. I went out for relatively long runs on both Saturday and Sunday mornings and it was tough. On Saturday, at 8:30 am the temperature was over 90F and by 10:00 am when I fininshed 10 miles, it was 93F. On Sunday, I figured I would [...]
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I suck. The last couple of days I haven’t had any time to run. I skipped running / joggling on Wednesday, Thursday, and only did a wimpy 1.2 miles on Friday. It’s tough keeping a busy social life, holding down a full-time job and training to be the fastest joggling marathoner in the world. This [...]
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My excellent wife went to Cosco on Saturday and was thoughtful enough to bring home 2.75 pounds of blueberries. At Cosco you can only buy really huge amounts of food.
Now, I love blue berries. Back in high school I used to have a piece of cheese cake topped with blueberries 5 times a [...]
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Today was a speed training day. Using my techniques for remembering runs I come up with the following phrase…Cosco Lice. I picture in my mind an oversized Lice on a treadmill running with a Cosco store on it’s back. That translates into 7.07 miles in 50 minutes.
The run featured 3 miles of [...]
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Here’s how my joggling has gone over the last few days.
Friday - rest day. I should’ve run here because I skipped running last Wednesday. However, I opted for a rousing game of volleyball instead. I’ll call it cross training. Joggling alone is not cross training.
Saturday - Despite the fact that I [...]
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To get faster you have to run faster. Thus today was a fast day.
My joggling training went like this.
10 minutes of joggling on the treadmill at 7.8 pace
4 x 0.5 miles running at an 11.3 pace. After each half mile, I ran another half mile at a slower pace (7.0)
I finished the workout [...]
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I’ve been having a pretty good joggling training week right up until today. That is not saying much as this is Wednesday, the third day of the week by my count. But I try to stay positive so let’s review.
Sure Sunday’s heat-shortened long run was a bummer but on Monday I joggled like [...]
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When I came back from running the other day, I felt a sharp pain when I took off my shirt. It turns out that I experienced a terrible amount of chafing on my nipples. The troubles of a marathon joggler never cease. Over the years I’ve come up with a variety of [...]
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The heat wave here in Chicago is killing me. Yesterday my schedule called for a 17 miler. I finished about 10 miles. Here are my excuses for doing less than I was supposed to.
1. Heat. Can you say 95 F and humid? And that was at 8:00 am.
2. [...]
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According to my training schedule, Friday is supposed to be a day of rest. I rested with a 5 mile joggle in the treadmill. The treadmill settings I use are 8.0 speed, 0.1 incline. That let’s me finish a 5 mile run in just about 38 minutes or so. I had one drop at about [...]
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