Jill Will Run

Today I left my house without a plan for the run. Well, without a route planned. I knew I wanted to get in about 8 miles, but beyond that… I didn’t know exactly how I wanted to accomplish the goal. I started out and mainly ran on “trails”. Many of the neighborhoods in my area [...]

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Runner’s World Complete Book of Women’s Running by Dagny Scott Barrios © 2007 324 pages This book covers many of the topics that are fairly typical for most broad-based running books, with the added exception that it does focus on how some of these issues may affect women. So if you’re a dude… you may [...]

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On Monday morning my training plan dictated that I was to run 3 miles at a 10:50. I ran nearly 3.5 miles at a 9:34. I started my run about an hour and a half after I would usually begin running on a weekday morning, simply because it was a holiday and I didn’t have [...]

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On the training plan today: 7 miles at a 10:50 pace. What I actually did: 10.1 miles at a 10:47 So far I’m really not following my training plan all that well. I either ignore the pace or ignore the distance. But I’m really not that concerned. I’m being FLEXIBLE. Or at least, that’s my [...]

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I’m on “staycation” this week. My husband and I always try to take a trip for our anniversary in May each year. But the past several years it has been getting more and more difficult to schedule something. Since he is a CPA he is swamped with work from January-April. And his busy season has [...]

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Yeah… the run was kind of rough. But I’m still glad I did it. I don’t think I’ve ever had a day where I wasn’t HAPPY I did the run, even if it doesn’t go how I want. To preface, yesterday was kind of a crummy day. I was just feeling tired and sad all [...]

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