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Ironman Florida (IMFL) training…8 months away

February was a great month in terms of building consistency.  Other than missing the 1st workout of the month I was able to follow my training plan exactly.

Swim = Blue Bike = Brown Run = Red Orange = Lift Green = REST

My Monthly workouts for Feb in review are below:

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Marathon Training Week 9

So I am in my ninth week of training for the Marine Corps Marathon. I just hopped on the scale and was pleasantly surprised to see that I have dropped nearly 10 pounds!!  Woohoo!  I have had little to no changes in diet so far.

I started out at 188 LBS on week 1.  [...]

The Bonk

At some point in every runners life you will experience what can only be described as a Bonk!  This is simply “a condition in endurance sports where depletion of glycogen stores in the liver and muscles results in sudden and severe fatigue.”  So this begs the question; “How to avoid bonking” or “What should I [...]

Marathon Training Schedule for busy people

If you’re like most people, you find it hard to find time to train during the week, with the demands from work, life, family, etc.  Once you have committed to running a marathon, you need to tell people about it.  This puts you on the hook to make sure you have some accountability and support [...]

Marathon Training

My wife and I decided to sign up for the Marine Corps Marathon on October 25th.  I have done a couple of these in the past, but it has been 7 years or so since my last marathon.  It feels really good to be getting in shape again.  My long run was 10 miles yesterday, [...]