Category: Geek Girl Runner
Running related posts and content, including ten episodes of my geekgirlrunner.com podcast
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Marathon ThoughtsDid anyone else watch the Olympic women’s marathon yesterday? It was fantastic. I thought it would be boring to watch people run for 2.5 hours, but I was pretty much mesmerised by the strategy and form of the runners. Some of them ran the way I dream of running: relaxed, springy, with a rock…
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I really like this schedule of having a hard week followed by a recovery week. It was good to back off a bit after pushing through the jet lag and the City 2 Surf. It felt great to get back out on my usual neighborhood routes. I realise now that all the aches and pains…
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Official City2Surf Results and PhotosThe official race results and pictures are now up, though the site’s been getting hammered all day: me, Rodd. If you watch the videos, we come running up pretty much in the middle. (I’m wearing a navy blue baseball cap, if that helps.) Our time was 105:46, which meant we placed…
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It was a week of ups and downs. I had a couple horrible runs on the treadmill in LA, but the City2Surf turned out way better than I expected. Week 5 distance: 16.45mi (26.3km)Week 6 distance: 11.5mi (18.43km)Week 7 distance: 17mi (27.2km) It was only a tiny increase from Week 5 (less than 5%), but…
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City2Surf 2008Well, we made it! I didn’t quite meet my goal of 100 minutes – we finished in about 105 – but that’s still an improvement of about 15 minutes on last year’s time. And what’s more, I felt really great during this year’s run. As I said to my Mom in an email afterwards:…
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It’s been pretty rough lately. I’ve just felt so sluggish and tired on my runs. Small wonder, given that I’ve been on eight airplanes in three weeks and I’ve been eating nothing but takeaways and junk food. Week 4 distance: 9.7mi (15.6km)Week 5 distance: 16.45mi (26.3km)Week 6 distance: 11.5mi (18.43km) So I dropped off again…
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Neat! My Mom got her very own shout-out at the end of this week’s Running With the Pack podcast. You’re a real runner now, Ma!
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This week was a return to my half-marathon preparation in earnest after the shorter recovery workouts last week. On Tuesday and Thursday I ran on the treadmill at the apartment. It was the first time I’d ever used the Nike+ on a treadmill, and I was prepared for it to be pretty inaccurate. Instead to…
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Congratulations to Miss Fee for her awesome finish in the Bay Run yesterday! Well done. My team got somebody else to run in my spot, but to my dismay, she finished slower than I predicted I would. Oh well.
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This week was fortunately a shorter week. (My training plan cuts back every third week so you don’t get worn out.) Instead of a long slow run on Sunday, I was meant to do 4 x 800m speed intervals. I went down to the treadmill in the hotel last night to do them… and just…