Category Archives: Athlete Wannabe

My relatively new (i.e., in the past 8 years) addiction to marathon running and now, (sprint) Triathlon


Training Run (3 miles)

Notes: This was my first run after straining my left calf. I walked the first mile (or sped walked it) and ran the remaining 2 miles. ItR [...]

Training Run (3 miles)

Notes: This wasn’t a good training run; for one thing, it’s supposed to be a 5-miler but I was breaking in new insoles and my le [...]

Long Run Training (18 miles)

Notes: First off, I really gotta calibrate my Garmin Forerunner 50; whilst Nike+ is reporting that I’ve run 18.38 miles, Garmin says I [...]

Training Run (5 miles)

Notes: I was not into this run at all. I don’t know if it was because of the wicked head winds, or the food I had for lunch or if I wa [...]

Training Run (8 miles)

Notes: Not too bad of a run; I nearly gave up in the end but I was like, 1 more mile to go… It sort of drizzled as I ran, too (I belie [...]

Training Run (5 miles)

Notes:Considering the blisters on my feet, I did fairly well overall. There was some soreness with the base of my left foot (plantar facicic [...]

Long Run Training (17 miles)

Notes:What can I say, I sucked at this run. There was something different about today and I kind of felt it less than half a mile into my ru [...]

Long Run Training (15 miles)

Notes: There were to be technology-related shenanigans in this run and it started with my Garmin foot pod not properly connecting to the For [...]

Recovery Run: 5 miles

Notes: It should actually be a training run (and the distance, according to my schedule is 7 miles), I did 5 miles doing the 6/1-interval an [...]

Race Report: Surf City USA

Notes: I PR’d! I think it’s rather good because I had barely run the month before this race; had exactly 5 training runs. LOL. S [...]

Long Run Training: 6 miles

Notes: Because of my hectic schedule this weekend (and thanks to Sheryl’s idea!) rather than skip this last run before the race, IR [...]
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