Sledding Wildly
Yesterday, I ran my first trail 5k race in Ashland, Nebraska, about halfway between Lincoln and Omaha. It was a challenging race: hills, snow, ice, mud, sharp turns, a few short slippery bridges, and branches/sticks on the course made for a fun but challenging adventurous race. This race course with snow and ice on it […]
Yesterday, I ran my first trail 5k race in Ashland, Nebraska, about halfway between Lincoln and Omaha. It was a challenging race: hills, snow, ice, mud, sharp turns, a few short slippery bridges, and branches/sticks on the course made for a fun but challenging...Restoring Monday Mile Routine
Happy Move it Monday and first day of February! Today I recorded a brief Periscope message on the restoration of my Monday Mile easy running day routine. Deviating from this recently has caused me to be more fatigued and I’m finding that I haven’t really been taking it easy one day a week. If I’m […]
Happy Move it Monday and first day of February! Today I recorded a brief Periscope message on the restoration of my Monday Mile easy running day routine. Deviating from this recently has caused me to be more fatigued and I’m finding that I haven’t really...Love Tapering?
Beginning tapering for the Empyrean 5k Trail Run next weekend today, I reflected upon embracing the taper phase of training for races today on Periscope. Hopefully a week of tapering for a 5k is optimal. Back in May of last year, I found a 3-week taper optimal for a full marathon before running a 4:19 […]
Beginning tapering for the Empyrean 5k Trail Run next weekend today, I reflected upon embracing the taper phase of training for races today on Periscope. Hopefully a week of tapering for a 5k is optimal. Back in May of last year, I found a 3-week taper optimal for a...Spontaneous Fartlek
Today, on Jan. 29, 2016, I taped a brief Periscope on how to do unstructured, spontaneous winter fartlek. Fartlek is Swedish for “speed play”. A while back, I began using #FartlekFriday on Twitter to mark my Friday runs and remind others to remember to run fartlek workouts. Enjoy! Happy Fartlek Friday and have a great […]
Today, on Jan. 29, 2016, I taped a brief Periscope on how to do unstructured, spontaneous winter fartlek. Fartlek is Swedish for “speed play”. A while back, I began using #FartlekFriday on Twitter to mark my Friday runs and remind others to remember to run...