Mountains 2 Beach Marathon; 700 feet of net downhill over 18 miles – not too steep but just enough to let gravity help; finishing on the beach in beautiful Ventura, CA; and the perfect setting to qualify for Boston. Sixteen weeks of training, four long months went into this race. The first half of training [...]
This is it! 16 weeks of training, literally going from zero to 26.2 miles over the past four months, culminates this Sunday at the Mountains2Beach Marathon. In my blog post Mental Toughness and my Laughlin Half Marathon experience I wrote about the struggles I had the first half of my marathon training. I used the [...]
We all know the value of running hills. We may hate. We may curse them. But we know hills will make you a stronger, fitter, faster runner. From my house there is no way to avoid hills. Going out or coming back, either way I’m going to have to go uphill at one point. One [...]
Want to train for an Olympic Triathlon and still maintain your half marathon running base? Wondering how to add swimming and cycling to an already full week of running? The answer is simple; run less. Yes, running fewer days during the week but keeping the intensity high, adding speed work, tempo runs and keeping your [...]
It had been six years since I last raced a half marathon, the Laughlin Half Marathon in 2008 where I set my half marathon PR. Life, work, and other race distances kept me from returning to focusing on 13.1 miles again until now. After my 70.3 distance triathlon in November 2013 I took almost three [...]
Last week I was fortunate enough to take part once again in the epic One Run For Boston coast-to-coast relay. In a previous post I wrote about my first experience participating in this event last year and was hoping this year would match the incredible experience of last. Not only did it match it but [...]
