One Step at a Time

Seafair Marathon 2008

2008-07-04T06:23:59Z

It's been a couple of days since I finished the marathon. I needed a couple of days to remember what happened on Sunday. The entire day just blurred together for me. We got up early. I was up by 3:45. Absent mindedly I put my oat meal into anothe...

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T - 1

2008-06-28T22:06:47Z

It's almost time. I was struggling to come up with words to describe how I feel at this moment. The last marathon I was oncall right up until the day before. I was stressed out about the high severity ticket that had come in Thursday. I handed it ...

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T - 2 and counting

2008-06-28T04:15:03Z

The last five days have been gone by quickly. I've spent the last week or so making sure that I've gotten lots of water and V8 (Jim's suggestion). This has been a good training season for me. I feel a little nervous but I'm much calmer than I was ...

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T - 7 and counting

2008-06-22T20:17:47Z

Seven days until the marathon. We've been tapering for the last two weeks after the 20 miler. The previous weekend was spent on Tiger mountain running 12 miles. Yesterday was our last team practice as we ran 8 miles around the Greenlake area. Th...

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Week 15: The Long Run

2008-06-10T05:11:51Z

This was it. After about 4 months of training, we hit the Snoqualmie Valley River Trail for our 20 miler. This is the longest training run of our season. The weather was not going to cooperate as it dropped a ton on rain on us. Fortunately the tr...

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T - 24

2008-06-05T19:09:15Z

If my calculations are correct, we have 24 days till race day. Time has definitely flow by this weekend. Last weekend, we made a trip back to Preston, site of the infamous Snow Day run. How would the warmer weather and the improved fitness feel? ...

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Week 13

2008-05-27T05:19:38Z

It's week 13 already. Time has passed by so quickly this season. It seemed like I only started training. This is the 1st of the long runs we'll be doing on the Snoqualmie Valley River Trail. This week was an 18 miler. In two weeks we do a 20 miler...

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Week 12: One Hot Day!

2008-05-20T04:43:38Z

Week 12 was out on the Sammamish River Trail. It was a flat paved asphalt path. A little change up from the dirt trails we've been running the last couple of weeks. I've run on the trail lots of times over the last couple of years (I ran my 1st ha...

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Week 11

2008-05-20T04:24:51Z

Week 11 was at Lake Youngs. The plan was to do the 9 mile loop around Lake Youngs and then a 7 mile out and back for 16 miles. As my body has started getting stronger, I find myself starting too strongly. Having run with my team mates for the las...

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Week 10: Half Way Point

2008-05-05T04:16:53Z

Week 10 marks roughly the half way point to the marathon. Counting week 11, we have about 2 months left before the marathon. This week's long run was a the Redmond watershed. It would consist of 3 loops and a little extra loop for a total of 15 m...

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