The week started rough – I’ve been working with my coach on my form, and it’s making my ankles and shins sore. The new form (midfoot strike) is already helping my speed, but I think I embraced it a little too much, and put in too much mileage, too fast. After a sports massage Monday, and some cross-training, I was ready Thursday for a great run. Turned into an amazing more » Read more
Cilantro’s Training Log – 6.9.2013
My last week of recovery was hot, exciting and wet. All thanks to Tropical Storm Andrea. My work trip to Orlando was less tropical paradise and more storm chaser paradise, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find it at least a little bit exciting. I must be some kind of adrenaline junkie. I also got in some great workouts: Sunday: Back-to-back spinning classes (counted as 30 miles); more » Read more
Celebrate National Running Day with Salty Running
Today is National Running Day and while the most obvious way to celebrate this day would be to step outside for a run, we suspect that, like us, most of you were planning to do that anyway! We at Salty Running are celebrating by sharing our running goals with each other. Goals not only give us something concrete to work toward, they keep us accountable with our running and foster more » Read more
Cilantro’s Training Log – 6.2.2013
My second week of recovery has been an astounding success – that is, if you count not running, resting, and cross-training as success. Which I do. I was way overtrained after Windermere, and I needed and (and dare I say it) deserved a break. I also met with my new running coach for the first time, and spent a few hours watching myself run on a treadmill. Now that’s a more » Read more
5 Reasons to Love the Off-season
I don’t know about you, but I normally suffer from the “post-race blues.” I focus on a race for so long that afterward I get a little depressed, whether I meet my goal or not. In fact, it’s usually worse when I rock my race goal, because once the euphoria wears off, I feel a little lost. My head wants to hop right back into training or race again; anything more » Read more
Book Review: Runner’s World Complete Book of Women’s Running
A book about women and running? Seems right down a Salty’s alley, right? Well, maybe. I just finished the Runner’s World Complete Book of Women’s Running by Dagny Scott Barrios and while I think the book had some excellent information and insight, the word “complete” in the title was a bit of a stretch. I think, at best, the book portrays one viewpoint of running and could be a great more » Read more
Cilantro’s Training Log – 5.26.2013
Not a lot of running going on in my world. Since Windermere’s major fail last week, I’ve taking advantage of a much needed break and trying to get back to my yoga side. I’m 79% runner, but the remaining 21% is 15% yogi, 5% swimmer, and 1% superfan. Yes, it’s possible for superfanmanship to be a sport, especially when you take it as seriously as I do. I even added more » Read more
Windermere Marathon Race Report: Almost a DNF
Was I overtrained? Yes. Did I carb-load enough? No. Did I peak too soon? Yes, for my PR in the Hurricane Half Marathon three weeks ago. Was the course unexpectedly hilly? Yes. Does that explain why it took me over 4 hours to run 26.2 miles? No. Not exactly. Why not? It was mental. Read more
Cilantro’s Training Log – 5.19.2013
In retrospect, this taper week was definitely a case of too little, too late – but it was my best pre-marathon week ever in terms of truly taking things easy… Not sure what that says about me and tapering, but that’s a post for another day. The stats: Sunday: 6 miles, easy Monday: Off Tuesday: Off Wednesday: 7 miles, easy with 6 x 100 speed intervals Thursday: Off Friday: Off more » Read more
How to Salvage a Marathon Training Plan (I Hope)
Say somewhere during the heaviest part of the training cycle, you missed runs for marathon training. Maybe things got busy, maybe you got sick, maybe there was an injury threat…no matter what the cause, is there a way to recover from missing workouts? I think so. I hope so, or I have totally screwed up my Boston-qualifying marathon goal. When I decided on a race and created my training plan, more » Read more