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2019 Year End Review

Training [dropshadowbox align=”center” effect=”raised” width=”875px” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”4″ border_color=”#d0021b” rounded_corners=”false” outside_shadow=”false” ] Mileage Total: 2,481.8 miles Days of Running: 277 days (88 days off) Time Spent Running: ~15 days, 15 hours Average Pace: 9:06 pace Longest Run (Distance): 26.2 miles

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2019 New York City Marathon

Scroll all the way down to the end for the tl;dr version. Prologue This was a strange training cycle because I simultaneously prepared for the New York City Marathon (“NYCM”) using the 12 weeks, 70 miles per week plan in

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2019 New York City Marathon - Week 3 Infographic

2019 New York City Marathon – Week 3

Two weeks into my 2019 New York City Marathon training cycle and I traveled for work.  I arrived in Athens, Greece on Thursday and even though I was jet-lagged, completed a treadmill run in that night.  Out on the roads the next day, I was rewarded with two amazing sights!

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2019 Cleveland Marathon

This race was pretty high on my list of tough marathons.  If the race was a week or two earlier, I think it could be a destination event.  It was well organized and there’s just enough to do around downtown for a three-day weekend.

I finished the 2019 Boston Marathon in mid-April and did a “reverse taper” before training again.

Based on the warm weather forecast, I adjusted my expectations considerably and just wanted to finish.  The spectators were fantastic – spraying runners with hoses and giving out water.  In the final miles, the temperature was 84 degrees!  My time was 3:57:09 (9:02 pace) – my second slowest marathon.

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2019 Cleveland Marathon – Week 4

With only a month since the 2019 Boston Marathon, I wondered if my body was rested enough to run well in another.  But, would it matter?  The weather forecast for the Cleveland Marathon was predicting a scorcher… Training Schedule May

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2019 Cleveland Marathon - Week 1 Infographic

2019 Cleveland Marathon – Week 1

Recovery from the 2019 Boston Marathon was short.  I took two days off, “reverse tapered”, and by the following week, was already training for the for the 2019 Cleveland Marathon! But, sickness knocked me down for a few days.  Training

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