running

5k Training Tips for Beginning Runners on a Busy Schedule by Julie Morris

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We’re lucky enough to have another post by Coach Julie! You may remember our first post by Coach Julie on Stress Management, which you can re-read HERE. Today, she’s talking training tips to get you on the road to your first 5k! Running is a fantastic way to keep in shape, but it can be […]

Hill Repeats

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I definitely feel like I’m doing better with the Dreaded Running, and I also definitely think that it has to do with the fact that we have added hill repeats. Although our weekly charts say to do 6 x 400 hill repeats at no more than 4% grade – running up, then walking back down – […]

Lasso Dem Yassos!

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Okie Dokie. Well – I have definitely discovered that I can do one thing a week other than train, eat, keep my husband happy, and sleep. I have had some work this past couple of weeks, plus have picked up on my marketing efforts – no chance to write here at all. I guess it’s all […]

Week 3 Begins! A Trip to Bodega Bay, Swimming with Iron Mel, Playlist, $250 Donation!

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Week 3 is here! Here is my schedule at a glance…and then a bit about what I’ve done so far! :-) THE WEEK AHEAD MONDAY – Off day. TUESDAY – Swim 60’ (total 1850) & Strength 40’ WEDNESDAY – Bike 60′ & Run 20′ THURSDAY – Strength 40’ (Turkey Day: gobble, gobble!) FRIDAY – Swim […]

Tennessee Valley Run with Paula

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Today we were to do Strength Training (I think), and then do another Run/Walk combo for about 40 minutes (5 min/1 min). It was a “buddy run,” and Paula, another lawyer I’d met at the Kickoff, and I met at Tennessee Valley. Paula is an old hand at this – she actually did the Lavaman […]

Run and Swim: First Team/Coached Workout

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Yesterday, Moddie and Iron Mel and I drove together from Marin to Seattle – oh I mean Pleasanton :-) We had some pretty funny issues with Ms. Toyota (as Mel called the GPS in my van). “She” sent us a different direction than the written instructions – we wound up trusting the written instructions instead, […]