Rain, rain, and more rain. I headed over to Cheslen Preserve to get in 25 miles this morning. The forecast was for rain all morning long and the weatherman sure nailed it. It never got to a full downpour, but it rained consistently the entire time I was out. The temperature was right around 50…
How I Run Multiple Hundreds a Year
Running a hundred miles is hard. Running more than one a year brings different challenges. If you’ve managed to finish one race, there’s no reason you can’t do several per year as long as you’re smart about it. The following strategies are how I go about doing more than one hundred mile race per year.…
NJ Ultra Training Update: a niggle, a 10+10 workout, and now a taper
So I’ve got a little niggle somewhere around my left knee. I say somewhere because it’s not a consistent thing. It showed up two weeks ago after a spectacular 25 mile long run. I ended up doing too much (i.e. lunges) the day after and my knee just felt weak. The tendon/ligament/muscle/whatever just inside the…
Cheslen Long Run (in pictures)
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then here’s sixteen thousand word and change on this morning’s run over at Cheslen Preserve.
NJ Ultra 100 Mile – Peak Training Schedule
The next three weeks represents my peak training block heading into my next 100 miler at the NJ Ultra. This represents a modest increase in mileage from the prior block heading into Naked Bavarian where I had 2 weeks in the low-50s. The only difference from a mileage standpoint is that I’m adding in an…
20.00 Miles on Day 2,000
I love my round numbers and today ended up being doubly round. Over five years ago, I started a streak of running at least one mile every day. At the beginning, my goal was to make it a month. I had read of people who had kept their streaks up for 20-30 years, however I…
NJ Ultra Training Update
My winter training cycle leading up to my first 100-miler of the year is broken into three phases. Phase 1 ended a couple weeks back with Phunt 50K. My mileage in the four weeks heading up to it was 31, 37, 46, and 31 miles with 53 miles the week of the race including the…
One Step Forward, One Step Back?
Life’s a rollercoaster. Just when things are looking up, well, down you plunge into the next ravine. I was feeling pretty good about my fitness after last weekend’s long run. It wasn’t a lights out performance by any stretch of the imagination, but it was a solid effort and a step up from my first…
Eastern States Maintaining Update
I’ve called my last two training cycles “maintaining” cycles for the reason that I didn’t feel what I was doing was actually training. In training, you steadily add stress and training load to your body in the hopes that you get stronger before you reach the point of injuring yourself. Each of my last two cycles…
Practice Makes Perfect
Let’s say you want to get better at something (i.e. ultras). What’s the best way to accomplish this? Well, you could gather as many materials as you can lay your hands on (books, magazines, blogs) and read till your eyes bleed. There’s a lot of great information out there and by studying it all you…