It’s a Saturday morning in May. I’ve got my iPod on, a new cute running top, bright white sneakers and some shades. I burst out the front door of my house on a mission: I’M GOING TO RUN. I’m tired of looking on wistfully at all the local runners with their nicely toned legs as they stride down by the lake like gazelles, sweat running down their backs. I’m headed down to the neighborhood park and I’m going to make myself a runner if it kills me. I tear down the street at top speed with a carefully selected Run Playlist . . . → Read More: Chapter One
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I’m in a running funk. I don’t want to run, not even a few miles. I don’t even want to think about running. When I do run, I just think about how miserable it is and how long I’ve been gone and how long til I’m home and what torture it feels like. I dwell on how awful I am at running and how I could be using this time to do something else and how I’ll never get faster so why try? I’m sick of all my routes and tired of doing the same thing all the time. Depressing, right? Stinky . . . → Read More: Running Funk: When you don’t want to run Last weekend, I completed my first half marathon. I wasn’t first, and I wasn’t last. My time was, well, twice that of some of my friends, but in the end it didn’t matter. I checked the ol’ half marathon off my bucket list. I also learned some valuable lessons throughout training and the race itself. Oh, and I got a kick-arse medal. Let’s not forget about the medal.
Before the race:
Guest post by Tim Cigelski – Originally posted on beerrunner.draftmag.com Seems like you’re doing something wrong if you run 19 miles on a 13.1 mile course. But I just did that, and it was one of my favorite races ever. It actually had nothing to do with the wine at the end. Since March I’ve been coaching the Wisconsin chapter of Team Challenge, a half marathon training group raising money for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. This morning about 1,000 Team Challenge members from around the country met in a vineyard to run the Napa to Sonoma Half . . . → Read More: Beer Runner in Wine Country
When I started working out and running on a regular basis I was all about the solo time. I looked forward to that hour or so a day when I could get away by myself. It wasn’t until I joined groups like the Badgerland Striders and Dailymile that I started branching out and meeting people who had the same interests as me – running like a fool. Of course, because of logistics and scheduling I still log most of my workouts alone but I’m always looking forward to the next group run. Not only does the time . . . → Read More: Group Motivation Guest blogger Nora Lahl is a beginning runner and self proclaimed foodie living in Bay View. She is also running her first 5K this weekend! Go ahead and check out her blog, Foodie Gets Fit. This NY Times article reminded me of a recent post from Tracey about how to raise kids with a healthy body image. While it’s never a perfect science, it’s pretty clear that a parent, especially a mother, can have a huge impact on her daughter’s self-perception. So here we are, adult women, dealing with our flawed perceptions of ourselves while trying to suppress . . . → Read More: Finding Balance: Body Image This weekend I spent a lot of time thinking about goals. More specifically, how my fitness goals have shifted and changed over the past two years. On Saturday, I ran the South Shore Half Marathon with a handful of friends- a really great group of runners who are all at different levels. As for me, I came into the race looking at it as another training run for my upcoming full marathon, but in the back of my head I knew I wanted to break my previous half marathon time from last August (2:04) and hopefully even crack the . . . → Read More: Monday Motivation: Rethinking Expectations Now that Tracey has helped us with the training schedules, you might be looking at them wondering how you are going to follow them exactly each day. I’m here to tell you it’s ok if you can’t follow them precisely. You will be able to train better if you know why each workout is done and how it helps with your progression. Buildups – You will see three workouts in a row. These are your bread and butter buildup workouts. They get your body used to putting lots of miles on it. You’ll see that these three aren’t the same . . . → Read More: Workouts with a Purpose: Training Schedules Explained Over a year ago I decided to stop drinking. I had spent one too many mornings wondering what I did the night before. I will certainly never judge those who choose to drink, I can promise you that. But if you are in the mood to stop, here’s a few more reasons why. Benefits: No empty calories – The average cocktail or beer can have about 300, or as many as 700 calories in the case of some of the ‘frou-frou’ drinks! |
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