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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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