Final Preparations This week the main focus was on carb loading and a few short runs. I ate so much pasta and bananas. We left for...

I feel ready for the marathon on Saturday. My bag is packed up with running gear, shoes, and the course map. The focus of the coming week...

Ah, the glorious weeks of tapering, during which you run less in order to prepare yourself to run more. It's slightly counterintuitive...

The true meaning of the phrase "it's not a sprint, it's a marathon" is becoming increasingly clear to me. I think most people who use...

From now on, every long run will be a new distance PR This week marked uncharted territory: Up until Saturday, I knew what it felt like...

I have officially surpassed the halfway point in training for the marathon, and the overwhelming sensation is... fatigue. Starting around...

This week's training plan called for running 13 miles on Saturday. It was a strange milestone considering that the past few times I've...

For the first time in over a month, I have finally completed all the runs in the week's training plan! And it was a busy week, with five...

I'm a bit delayed in writing this post because I've been taking a break from the internet, to the extent possible. It's surprising how...

This week I finally have no bad news to report, and it's reflected in my training.

After the last few weeks, today's post makes me feel like this is probably the most depressing marathon training blog ever. But here we...

Try again, fail again. Try again.

My training plan was able to stay mostly intact. Albeit outdoors and requiring me to cross the road when the random dog-walker approached.

It's kind of unfortunate that my marathon training schedule began so close to the new year, because it feels like a New Year's Resolution.