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Cleveland Marathon Training Week 17: Taper Time

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

Crazy how fast those 17 weeks went by and now I’m tapering for my second marathon of the year. I’m still thinking about my time goal for this race but overall I am so happy to be healthy enough to … Continue reading →

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Keeping My IT Band Happy: The Cross Training Edition

Posted on April 12, 2013 by

I want to tell you that for years I ran, just ran and did zero cross training. However, when I look back to when I first started distance running (7 or so years ago) I didn’t just run. I ran … Continue reading →

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Keeping My IT Band Happy: The Stretching Edition

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

Hopefully, I will not jinx myself with this post but I do want to share what has and has not been working with my IT band problems. If you follow my training you know I went from running 50 miles … Continue reading →

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Cleveland Marathon Training Week 3: Timeless

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

I was really lacking a title and so I threw out “timeless”. I wouldn’t say that my training this week was timeless (as in amazing/incredible), I just didn’t really time my runs this week since I did a lot of … Continue reading →

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Cleveland Marathon Training Week 2: Wow that went by fast!

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

I cannot believe how fast the past week went and that I am already blogging about week 2. I guess the weeks go by fast when you are marathon training, planning a wedding and have 12 FRIENDS who are all … Continue reading →

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My 2013 Marathon Training Plan

Posted on January 3, 2013 by

I spent a lot of time thinking about how I was going to do my training differently this year. Low mileage-no more 50 mile weeks, I’ll barely even be knocking on 40 miles a week. Running 3-4 days a week. … Continue reading →

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Santa Hustle Half Marathon

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

Santa Hustle Half Marathon and 5K was a BLAST! Completely worth driving to Sandusky, OH for (less than an hour drive). Santa Hustle’s are held all over the U.S. but this was the first time having it in Sandusky. Of … Continue reading →

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Jingle Bell Run 5K

Posted on December 10, 2012 by

This was the first year that this race was being held so instantly I was hesitant to sign up. New races rarely go well. Blocking off streets, getting volunteers, designing shirts, ordering enough shirts, getting food and water for after … Continue reading →

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2nd Annual Pre-Turkey Trot 5K

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

Since I’m finally back to running and racing I’ve been trying to get in as many races as I can before the bad weather hits. After taking a weekend off racing I was itching to run again. Since it’s getting … Continue reading →

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My Battle With The IT Band Monster

Posted on November 16, 2012 by

I’ve been meaning to write this post for awhile but it’s been quite the battle with the IT band monster. I wish I could have given updates about what I was doing to make it better but literally I was … Continue reading →

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