Category: Geek Girl Runner
Running related posts and content, including ten episodes of my geekgirlrunner.com podcast
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Week 28My distance cushion is disappearing! I guess that’s the point of building it up, so that I’ve got it to burn when I have a week like this. The ankle sprain I suffered on Friday ended up being a little worse than I thought. When I got home that night, it was swollen and…
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Week 27This was a cutback week on our half-marathon training plan. Sunday the Snook and I were meant to run 5km with a “Magic Mile” time trial in the middle. To my astonishment, we ran the mile in 9:17! That’s 30 seconds faster than the last one we did 11 weeks ago. Monday I had…
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Week 26Halfway through the year! I can’t believe it’s gone by so quickly. It feels like just yesterday I was stressing over getting to 1000km… and here I am six months later with a MARATHON under my belt! My recovery is going pretty well. I’m back on the Slow Carb Diet, and I think I’m…
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Week 25Easing back into everything this week. Work, exercise, all of it. Some things are easier than others. My diet and sleep are still messed up, and I’m having trouble finding the willpower to get back to my low-carb diet and proper bedtimes. My running buddies think I need to cut myself some slack, given…
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Week 24As you all know, I DID IT. After the marathon on Sunday, we were pretty much stuck indoors at the Snook’s parents’ place while the entire coast was flooded with rain. The Pacific Highway is closed, but we managed to get to the New England Highway yesterday and drive home. (That little detour added…
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This is interesting. According to these statistics, there have been 401 female Australian marathoners so far in 2011. And I’m one of them.
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Macleay River Marathon 2011 Race ReportThis is gonna be a long post folks, with a couple photos too, so settle in! We left Sydney on Friday morning and headed north in our rental car. It felt like we were taking a lot of stuff with us, but I knew from my obsessive list-making that I…
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Week 23I’m putting up this post a day early as tomorrow we’ll be on the road to the Mid North Coast. That’s right – it’s all come down to this. I took it very easy this week for my taper. Sunday the Snook and I went for a 7 mile run (as mandated on my…
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Week 22Taper Madness has given way to Taper Paranoia. This week I wrestled with the constant fear of getting sick or injured in the run-up to the race. The weather’s been really crappy too, which didn’t help. Saturday I went for my scheduled 6-miler with the Snook, taking it easy at 2:1 intervals. Sunday and…
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DailyMile MittsDailyMile is a community site for runners and other athletes. I’ve been posting my workouts there for the past eight months, and I’ve been blown away by the camaraderie and support I’ve received. A few months ago, a DMer from NZ named Lisa was visiting Sydney so a bunch of us had a meetup…