If you have ever trained hard for a race, and followed a plan that builds up to a few weeks before the race and then tapers off the training until the big day, you are probably familiar with the taper crazies. It’s that special brand of crazy that comes from pre-race jitters and stress combined […]
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The Many Faces of Taper Crazies
Posted in Marathon, Racing, Running, tagged marathon training, race preparation, running, taper, taper crazies, taper crazy on May 22, 2013| 8 Comments »
Taper Crazies
Posted in Family life, Marathon, Running, tagged marathon training, running, taper, Triathamom on November 5, 2012| 2 Comments »
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Triathamom! When my husband begged me not to recycle my vampire costume yet again for Halloween this year, I put my 10-year-old to the task at the last minute. She grabbed a plain blue t-shirt of mine and some fabric markers and she made me a “Triathamom” t-shirt […]
Taper, Goals, and Tracking for the Phoenix Marathon
Posted in Marathon, Racing, Running, tagged #ItsGoingDownAtPHX, full marathon, marathon, Phoenix Marathon, racing, running on February 25, 2015| 8 Comments »
The ticker on the Phoenix Marathon site assures me there are indeed just 2 days and 14 hours until the race begins. No wonder I have butterflies in my stomach and I am busy shoving carbs in my mouth to try to quell them and carb-load at the same time. This will be my fifth […]
Whistler and Vancouver Trails
Posted in Family life, Running, Trails, Uncategorized, tagged BC, Boston Marathon, Boston Marathon training, British Columbia, Canada, Seawall, Stanley Park, Valley Trail, Vancouver, Whistler on April 5, 2016| 2 Comments »
Two more weeks until Boston! What happened to March and how can it be April already? The past three months since I started working part-time as a substitute aide in the special education classrooms have gone by in a blur of working and training. I think I’m ready for Boston but it doesn’t feel like […]
Random Signs That You’re Ready for Your Race
Posted in Humor, Marathon, Racing, Running, tagged Long Beach, Long Beach International Marathon, Long Beach Marathon, marathon training, running humor on September 30, 2013| 5 Comments »
Twelve more days until the Long Beach Marathon! I am totally loving taper and I say that without a trace of sarcasm. No taper crazies this time because it’s my third full marathon in a year’s time and frankly I am a little burned out on the training regimen and happy to cut back a […]
Not So Crazy
Posted in Injury, Marathon, Running, tagged marathon training, running on November 7, 2012| 8 Comments »
The “Taper Crazies” are turning out not to be so crazy — the pain in my left shin is not magically going away with the reduction of running miles during taper. KT Tape Pro helps, as does rest and ice, but the pain refuses to go away completely and it gets a lot worse after […]
Three Days Back to Marathon Madness
Posted in Marathon, Racing, Running, tagged marathon, races, running on November 19, 2012| 7 Comments »
Three days is all it took for me to recover enough from my first marathon to go online and look for my next one! My husband Mike reminds me that on the finish line at Santa Barbara I was already talking about doing another race. I don’t remember that although I know I was totally […]
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