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Category Archives: The Flat-Footed Fox
Semper Currens VIII: The Best Laid Plans
Week Seven Training Wrap-Up It was bound to happen. After two successful weeks following the Hanson’s program to a T, this week I missed my weekly mileage target in a big way. It was partly a conscious choice: I decided … Continue reading
Semper Currens VII: The Dog Days Return
Week Six Training Wrap-Up The week started brightly enough, with a successful tempo run on the same course and over the same distance as week five. Only this time, I crushed it, pacing it just right to finish strong and … Continue reading
Semper Currens VI: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Week Five Training Wrap-Up If I could dream up a great week of running, this week would be it. I did all the hard workouts successfully, ran the longest run of the summer since the Boilermaker and met my weekly … Continue reading
Semper Currens V: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Week Four Training Wrap-Up Hard to believe, but I’m now a quarter of the way through the program and through the first really tough week. The one big negative of the week was a disastrous tempo run that I’ll talk … Continue reading
Semper Currens IV: Dialing it Up
Week Three Training Wrap-Up It’s been a pretty good week overall. Like last week, I went gentle and long, completing my mileage in three longish runs. Fortunately, this has been a gorgeous week in New York, with temperatures in the … Continue reading
Semper Currens III: Horses for Courses
Week Two Training Wrap-Up After running hard at the Boilermaker, I figured I would start the week gently, so I didn’t run run until Wednesday. Then I went long and slow on a very humid Saturday–one of my favorite routes … Continue reading
Boilermaker 2015, or The Tale of the Traveling Chocolate GU
At the end of the Vermont City Marathon, I had one package of Chocolate Outrage GU left in my fanny pack. It stayed there for a couple of weeks until, one morning, Tessa decided to head out for a bicycle … Continue reading
Semper Currens II: All About That Base
Week One Training Wrap-Up Only one week in, and already I’m going off script! But there’s a method to my madness.
Semper Currens: The 2015 Marine Corps Marathon Virtual Trainer and Run
What does semper currens mean? On October 25, I will be running in the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington DC. This will be my seventh marathon and the biggest competitive marathon I have run to date. It will also be … Continue reading
Return to Burlington: The Road Goes Ever On
I was late getting to the start line. Very late. Tables and chairs had already been stacked up underneath tents. The last empty gel packets and banana peels had been picked up and thrown into the garbage bags, which were … Continue reading
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