Time Spent Running: 7 hours 55 minutes 29 seconds Total Mileage: 55 miles Strength Training: 3 weight sessions, plus core exercises Elliptical: 1x, 70 minutes Yeah, I know I haven’t been recapping my weeks very often, but I don’t feel like telling you about the last few runs.  Just bad.  Hot, slow, and I felt lightheaded and sick after yesterday’s.  I [...]

Time Spent Running: 7 hours 11 minutes 27 seconds Total Mileage: 50.5 miles Strength Training: 3 weight sessions, plus core exercises Elliptical: 1x, 65 minutes Hey, remember when I used to recount my running week?  Probably not since I haven’t done it since January.  Yesterday’s 8 mile run in much less humid weather (77% instead of the usual 90% or so) [...]

Time Spent Running: 8 hours 7 minutes 47 seconds Total Mileage: 59 miles Strength Training: 2 weight sessions, plus core exercises Despite tapering, I still logged 59 miles last week.  It’s higher because I switched my last long run from today to yesterday.  Compared to 75.5 miles the week before, it’s definitely still a taper. Today I lifted weights, which I [...]

Time Spent Running: 8 hours 23 minutes 29 seconds Total Mileage: 61 miles Strength Training: 2 weight sessions, plus random leg and core exercises Yoga: 60 minutes My mileage wasn’t bad this week considering I didn’t do a long run.  Higher than expected, actually.  I can tell–I’m still running well, but I have a few more aches.  My shoes are getting [...]

Time Spent Running: 10 hours 20 minutes 20 seconds Total Mileage: 75 miles Strength Training: 2 weight sessions, plus random leg and core exercises Yes, it looks like a ton, but I just hit 75 miles this week because I switched my long run from Monday to Sunday.  Thus, I technically did 2 long runs in one week.  That means this [...]