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Archive | October, 2010

31 October 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Team Challenge Vegas RnR #10

On the schedule for this week: 10 miles at Red Rock Canyon! The toughest course the team will run during our whole training. Steep uphills, plus you gotta come back down the hills too! I think this run/walk is probably harder than our 12-miler is going to be. To start off, we had a costume [...]

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29 October 2010 ~ 16 Comments

That Was Weird…

Yesterday morning I was running with a friend/coaching client.  We were planning on doing 14 miles together.  After 2.5 miles I had to make a pit stop. (See: Runner’s Gut)  As we were approaching the end of our first 7 mile loop I told her, “I don’t think I have 14 miles in me today. [...]

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26 October 2010 ~ 8 Comments

Runner’s Gut

I am so tired of having such an irritable digestive system when it comes to my running!  You name it, I’ve experienced it… Puked? Check Runners Trots? Check Gas? Check Bloat? Check Heartburn? Check It seems that every stage of digestion has disagreed with me at some point in my training.  The trouble is that [...]

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25 October 2010 ~ 2 Comments

National Married-to-a-Runner Appreciation Day

If you didn’t see this post on the Runners World Daily Blog, it’s kind of explanation for the reason I’m posting this. If you have no interest or are too lazy to click over and read that post, in a nutshell… the author devoted the blog post for the day to say thank you to [...]

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24 October 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Team Challenge Vegas RnR #9

Good practice this weekend! We did 9 miles on a course that is a 3-mile loop, which means we repeated it 3 times. This course also has some good rolling hills which cause some complaining, but we keep reminding them that if they can do those hills they’ll be fine for the race because The [...]

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22 October 2010 ~ 6 Comments

Erratic Training

My running lately has been all over the place. Several weeks ago I ran 7 whole miles in one week. I’m not exactly sure what it is, but some weeks I just feel beat… and I’m going with the flow when I feel good and when I’m feeling drained I’m trying to respect my body [...]

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