Category: Marathon Training
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Marathon Hydration
I have run 20 marathons and have learned what hydration plans work and don’t work for me during a race. I have run multiple races in India, where I was already sweating in the start corral and races in the desert with 20% humidity. I live in Minnesota, where it can be -20f and 100f.…
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How many days do you run?
I have tried all sorts of running routines from running every day to running only 3 days a week. When I first started running I tried everything and of course, got a lot of things wrong. The main thing I did, in the beginning, was to not take any easy days. I always thought I…
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Running like an Icelandic Horse
Sounds crazy right? Running on ice. In Minnesota we can encounter trails like above for 8-9 months a year. December through February we can nearly guarantee these conditions. What do we do? If you remember my article about “Screw in my shoes” you will see that we have options for running on the ice and…
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The freezing cold long run morning
I recently sat at my kitchen table on a cold winter morning, eating a small bowl of oatmeal and asking myself; “Why am I going out for a 3 hour run today when it is 10f?†Yes it seems ironically funny and it is something I ask myself almost every Saturday in the winter. For…
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What to eat? The Long Run Dilemma.
I have struggled with nutrition on long runs since I started doing long runs. My usual go to meal is a bowl of oat meal but as you get into longer and longer run the one bowl of oat meal is not going to stick around for long. I have also struggled with an upset…
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Music or no music?
Do you like to run with music in your ears or do you like to listen to the world go by? I have three different scenarios when I listen to music and when I don’t. Your solo long run – I usually listen to something on a long run where I run by myself. This…
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Why you should never just do one marathon
One thing I always tell my new running friends who are training for their first marathon. Sign up for another marathon right away. Chances are you may not have a great experience in your first marathon, but you will learn a ton. You need to jump back in and give it another try. I fully…
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10 years of marathons
My New Years’ resolution for 2021 is to start writing more and how can you ask for a better subject than to write about running! I am going to start with my first marathon which was Grandma Marathon 2011 in Duluth Minnesota. I was convinced by my wife that I should run a marathon. I…
