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(photo by Glenn Tachiyama: Lisa, Stacy Bunton, Stephanie Ehret at the start) As many of you know, I don't run a lot of miles. It's because I don't have time. My job keeps me busy, and even my time away from work is pretty much accounted for. However, I knew for the that I had to sacrifice something because I had to get in the miles for this tough race. Fta Coolsat 5000 Files. Unfortunately, I ended up sacrificing sleep and that worked only for a period of time. Still, I managed some of my best training in the three months leading up to the race. Remember please, that this is MY best training.

I'm not advocating or promoting what I did. More miles and more rest would do anybody better, including myself, but I worked with what I had and this is what I came up with. Looking back to baseline mileage from January through June, I ran the usual 25 miles per week on average for January, February and March. In March, I ran the Pacific Rim 24-hour race as a training run for and did 63 miles there for a soft win. Then I picked up it up to an average of 40 mpw for April and May. In April, I ran my best 100-miler at Umstead in 19:42 and started to get my groove on for feeling good about breaking out of my usual comfortable zone of 'just have fun and don't push too hard.you want to recover without any problems.' Umstead made me realize that I could push harder, run better, and still be ok.

I was able to run the in about 6 hours (which is slow for me) a couple weeks later, and I ran the in just under 10 hours a few weeks after that and the three weeks later for a PR and a win. Still, including those races, I averaged only 40 mpw for those two months. Then June came.

I managed to squeak in only 19 mpw on average for the month. I was looking for a new home and my dear friend from high school visited and I spent time cruising around on my new beach cruiser. Call it busy, lazy, but whatever happened, I just didn't get in the miles. I did run the end of June and it was a fun race. Chessboard Pdf Open Cv Canny. It was a trail race, so I took it easy. Save the ankles, right! THEN, on July 2, I got my Spartathlon entry confirmation.

That shook me silly. I knew I HAD to get serious or I would condemn my race from the start. This was important.

I somehow had to find a way to increase my mileage. I had to find a way to incorporate some weekly runs despite my 12-hour work days. That's when I started trading my warm bed for my running shoes. In July, I started doing '.' I still did most of my training on the weekends and was a little concerned about upping the mileage on my feet too much. So, I would run long on Friday, then bike long on Saturday, and run longer on Sunday.