Happy November! Monica from Run Eat Repeat is hosting an annual challenge called Pile on the Miles. The idea is to pile on miles instead of pounds during November. I’m IN! My goal for November is to run 75 miles. That’s 50% more than I ran in October! Today I got off to a great […]
Good morning! It’s just a few days before my half marathon so I researched carb loading. I have no idea if I’m doing it right, but it’s kind of a relief to stop worrying about macros and calories for at least a few days. Here is what I’m eating this week: Sweet potatoes sliced up, […]
I’ve been burning out on half marathon training…but last Sunday was the Run 10, Feed 10 fun run. This was a 10K in residential areas of Brentwood and Santa Monica. I had a rough start with this run…it began on an incline, it was HOT, I’d had Thrifty Ice Cream the day before, I didn’t […]
I’ve been loosely following the Jeff Galloway half marathon training plan – it seemed like a good place to start since it incorporates walk breaks. But I think I can do better than a 30-minute run twice a week, so my modified strategy is to pop on the treadmill and run as much as I […]
I tried for 5 miles, but the treadmill shut down after an hour. I wasn’t running too terribly fast, and I took a fair few walk breaks, so I just missed my mark. An hour on the treadmill sounds dull, doesn’t it? But it wasn’t! It gave me a chance to catch up on my […]
