Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 14
I’m tired. I’ve reached the point that is mentioned in the Hanson’s guide where the mileage just makes you tired. This week the strength run is a lovely 2 x 3 mile on Tuesday,...
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Stone of Farewell re-read – Part Three – Storm’s Heart
It has taken me a while to do this Stone of Farewell part three re-read post. I must confess…I read ahead. I got into the story and slammed through the rest of it, re-read...
Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 13
This week the strength run is a lovely 3 x 2 mile on Tuesday, tempo run on Thursday is 5 miles. It also has a 10 mile Long Run on Sunday. Total target mileage...
Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 12
This week the speed runs change to strength runs, this first one is 6 x 1 mile on Tuesday, tempo run on Thursday goes up to 5 miles. It also has a 10 mile Long Run...
Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 11
Cooler weather hath come to South Texas!!! The program is really starting to show the results, making me wonder if I set my target too low on my half-marathon pace. When I was first...
Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 10
This is the halfway point in the 18 week program, and I’ve found my second (?) mistake. I was looking for when the Sunday Easy runs turned into Sunday Long runs…and found that I was...
Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 9
As of Tuesday of this week (September 30th) I will have run 150 miles this month. Pretty incredible given my past knee et al history. June was 88, July and August were right at 100...
Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 8
The previous week’s log is here. This week the speed run is 6×800 on Tuesday, tempo run on Thursday goes up to 4 miles. It also has an 10 miler on Sunday. Total target mileage 40 miles....
Joe Sample – Old Places, Old Faces
I made a trip down to the Fifth Ward of Houston on Friday. No offense to the people who live there, or who are from there, but the “Five Spot” is not my normal...
Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 7
There are many articles and books on the effects of practice, or repetitive effort towards the same goal (which marathon and half-marathon training certainly falls into). Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, says that...