My 2021 London Marathon Training Plan
Back in December, I started what was to be an 18-week training cycle with the notion of potentially running a spring marathon.
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My 2018 New York City Marathon Training Plan
If it’s July, I’m starting to train for the New York City Marathon! This will be my sixth consecutive year participating in the event, which is consistently the highlight of my running year. Everything about this race is big! It
Continue readingMy Summer 2018 Training Plan
Two and a half weeks ago, I finished the cold, rainy, and windy 2018 Boston Marathon! Thoroughly warm and dry, it’s time to look back at my last training cycle and ahead to the summer. I’ll start training for the
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My 2018 San Diego 50 Training Plan
Preface Over the years, people have asked me if I’d ever run an ultra-marathon. I always answered with some variation of, “Absolutely not!” My thinking began to change last fall when I watched a documentary on the Barkley Marathons. Even
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My 2017 New York City Marathon Training Plan
The New York City Marathon is my favorite marathon. Making my way through all five boroughs of the city with 50,000 of my fellow runners and thousands of amazingly supportive New Yorkers has been absolutely thrilling! If everything goes as
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My 2017 Eugene Marathon Training Plan
Introduction I’m planning to run the 2017 Eugene Marathon on May 7, 2017. I chose this race because from what I’ve read it’s a) fairly flat, b) in a city I’d like to visit, and c) it finishes on Hayward
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Thoughts on the Hudson Plan
After I trying Hansons marathon training plan for the 2015 California International Marathon (CIM) in December and being disappointed with my time, I decided to try a plan in Brad Hudson and Matt Fitzgerald’s book, Run Faster From the 5K
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Choosing (and Creating) My 2016 Boston Marathon Training Plan
This should be a shorter post than the one I wrote about choosing my training plan for last fall. Back then, I was torn between the Hansons and Hudson plan and ultimately chose the former. Now, I’m going to choose
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Thoughts on the Hansons Plan
After years of following the Pfitzinger Advanced Marathoning (Pfitz) plans, I tried a Hansons marathon training plan for the California International Marathon (CIM). I wrote about that decision in early July and about how I was adjusting to the training
Continue readingChoosing My Fall 2015 Marathon Training Plan
For the past three years, my goal fall marathon was either the New York City Marathon (“NYCM”) or Marine Corps Marathon (“MCM”). Training for a marathon in the heat and humidity of Washington, D.C. was miserable. Runs that started comfortable
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