Every month on Strength Running I write a review of the previous month’s training – what worked, what didn’t, my failures and successes. My hope is that you can learn from my training to improve your own. I’m going to do something a little different today: open a Q&A in the comment section about your training. [...]
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[Reminder: I'm giving away a free month of personalized coaching! If you want in, check out the details here.] “In football, you might get your bell rung, but you go in with the expectation that you might get hurt, and you hope to win and come out unscathed. As a distance runner, you know you’re [...]
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September – what a month! Lots of lessons to be learned and milestones to be celebrated. First, September was my highest volume month of 2011! I ran 342 miles, or an average of about 80 miles per week. This is awesome news since it comes about 2.5 months before the Philadelphia Marathon. The work I [...]
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It’s game time. The Philadelphia Marathon is on November 20, only 76 short days away. This is week seven of my 17 week training plan. I’ve already had to alter my schedule based on my original program, which highlights the importance of flexibility and changing things on the fly. Even though you’re supposed to “plan [...]
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July started with a bang with 82 miles in the first seven days. And it ended in a whimper: only 199 miles for the month. But I had a great reason for running so little: I got married and went to Hawaii for two weeks! The wedding was on July 9 and we left on [...]
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Every month on Strength Running I provide an overview of my training, key workouts, and any races that I run. If you want to see what my training looks like on a daily basis, you can follow me on Dailymile. June was a solid month of getting back into heavier training. With my college reunion and [...]
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Every month on Strength Running I provide an overview of my training, key workouts, and any races that I run. If you want to see what my training looks like on a daily basis, you can follow me on Dailymile. May was a building month as I get back to the 300+ mile months from earlier [...]
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April was a month of rest for me with some reduced-volume running and also 8 consecutive days of no workouts whatsoever. With over 1,200 miles in the bank for December – March, I was tired and decided rest and relaxation was the answer. I was also experiencing stubborn soreness from the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler [...]
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Every month on Strength Running I provide an overview of my training, key workouts, and any races that I run. If you want to see what my training looks like on a daily basis, you can follow me on Dailymile. March was another great month of running with solid workouts, a near PR at the [...]
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Every month on Strength Running I give an overview of my monthly training. Unlike a lot of other running sites out there, I walk the walk (run the run?) and am usually in a high-volume training cycle. February was no different. If you want to see what my day to day training looks like, you [...]
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