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The run I needed

Here’s a little known fact about me — I very rarely plan my routes out. I usually just have a general mileage range in mind and then run wherever I feel like it.

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Breaking through the comfort zone

by David H.

One new piece of advice I’ve developed in the past few months, but haven’t really said is: Don’t get too comfortable.

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I don’t have much to say about a 5k I did yesterday … one of the steepest hills I’ve encountered in a 5k absolutely killed my time. That being said, I ran a solid 25:12 in the first-ever 5k at Lynchburg College’s Homecoming. I was on target for about 24 minutes until the route came [...]

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Longest training run ever

by David H.

The first time I trained for a marathon, my one and only attempt at running 20 miles failed. This time around, though, my non-plan planning arranged for a few 20 mile runs instead of just one. After getting sick a few weeks ago, I re-planned my non-plans and settled on two 20-mile or more runs. [...]

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Strong start to September

by David H.

Day 1: 5.5 miles. Day 2: 5.1 miles. I’ve had two pretty good runs to kick off month No. 9 and get last week’s bad week behind me. This week I finally created a Garmin Connect account, thus giving me more numbers to analyze in a more accurate fashion than trying to map the run [...]

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Longest since …

by David H.

14 miles in 2:15 around Bedford. Longest training run since fall 2007. I realized this week that the last time I trained for the Richmond Marathon that I didn’t document my experiences very well. Now that I have a decent phone I can take with me and not have it get in the way, I’m [...]

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