Training Diaries: Coach Joe’s Boston Marathon Training Week 3-5

Somehow the last few Sunday’s have been busy enough that I haven’t been able to write in my Boston training diaries. I’ll get you up-to-date here with a snapshot of the last couple of weeks.

Weeks 3 and 4 were actually pretty good. I spent the timing increasing the distance of my runs and getting a [...]

Training Diaries: Coach Joe’s Boston Marathon Training Week 2

Welcome back to my training diary as I work toward Boston 2008. It’s a long way off, and if you read last week’s entry, you know that I’m just taking it slowly as I get back into my running after at least eight weeks off with the new baby. (He’s doing great, by the way!)
I’ll [...]

Training Diaries: Coach Joe’s Boston Marathon Training Week 1

It’s been awhile since I’ve written entries here in my personal diaries. For those of you that are new to reading Running Wild, when I’m training for a race, I usually journal every Sunday to keep tabs on my own personal progress. It seems that people like to hear about the training experiences of other [...]

Training for the White River 50 miler: Week 10

We’ve officially begun tapering for the White River 50 miler. As always, it’s hard to taper and to begin bringing the mileage down. You start to feel like you’re getting out of shape so quickly and it’s tough to watch as your belly starts increasing in the opposition to your mileage declines.
I’ve been traveling this [...]

Training for the White River 50 miler: Weeks 8 & 9

I missed a week in my journaling as we move toward our 50 mile trail race coming up in just three weeks now! I can’t believe that we’re tapering already, but it is nice to have the really, really, long runs behind us.
The last two weeks were a bit strange. Week 8 was basically a [...]

Training for the White River 50 Miler: Week 7

With all of the travel this past week, I forgot to give an update on my own training for the White River 50 miler. I already wrote extensively about our last long run a week ago Sunday, so I don’t need to go back there again.
My long run this weekend consisted of my work [...]

Training for the White River 50 Miler: Endurance (Week 6)

This was an interesting week of running for me. Although I was consistent and was able to get some runs in, most of them were a little rushed in the midst of a very busy week. Friday I had a good run in the late after-noon in Forest Park by-myself and Karl and I finally [...]

Training for the White River 50 Miler: Recovery (Week 5)

This was a recovery week for Karl, Andy and myself. After running two marathons last weekend, we all needed a bit of a rest week and we took it. If you want to read about our weekend at the Rock N Roll Marathon last weekend, click here.
It was interesting that all three of us felt [...]