With exactly three weeks to go until race day, we have entered one of my least favorite parts about training: the taper. The point of marathon tapering, or any tapering in general, is to give the body rest and reduce the fatigue of training in order to be at peak
I came across a quote this week that really made me think: “Running isn’t a sport for pretty boys…It’s about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. It’s the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It’s about throbbing calves and
This week I learned why you need to experience bad runs. On Monday, I was supposed to do a tempo run- 10 miles with 6 at half marathon pace. My most recent half marathon was a 6:50 pace, so I thought, “Ok no problem, it’ll be 2 easy warm-up miles,
