http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/ en-us Copyright 2008 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:14:01 -0600 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:16:08 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.31 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon. 18-Aug Tue. 19-Aug 6 3x 800 (3:05, 3:10, 3:06); 4x 400 (1:29, 25, 29, 24); 5x 200 (42, 42, 42, 40, 39) Wed. 20-Aug 13 with Gnus - pool to LAB Enfield West Campus Congress and back. Thought legs... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2008/08/318.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2008/08/318.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:14:01 -0600 I have started this again with the intention of NOT spending an inordinate amount of time on it. I'm going to try to keep it short and sweet. Our goal this fall is California International Marathon on 12/7. I'm following... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2008/08/1_2_18.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2008/08/1_2_18.html Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:13:40 -0600 3:16:51. I just looked at my Garmin data for the first time since before the halfway point of the marathon on Sunday. It’s fascinating and frustrating at the same time. My garmin says I was pretty erratic in my pacing,... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/11/philadelphia_ma.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/11/philadelphia_ma.html Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:30:38 -0600 A quote from August Jen: We have a marathon goal pace run coming up shortly, and I’m dreading it. Not because it’s going to be a tough effort, but because I feel really stupid calling whatever pace I can handle... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/11/last_premaratho.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/11/last_premaratho.html Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:18:15 -0600 and fewer miles to blog about! We did 3x1600 at 5K pace this morning. I averaged 6:24 pace for all three, with each quarter being between 1:33 and 1:37. Before the last one I let out a little squeal of... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/11/taper_gives_you.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/11/taper_gives_you.html Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:18:17 -0600 My shin is better. I can't even make it hurt when I flex my foot. Rest, ice, ibuprofen, and the foam roller were my self-prescribed solution and it seems to have worked. I used ice and ibuprofen on Saturday, and... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/11/taper_hyper.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/11/taper_hyper.html Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:50:55 -0600 is back. Unbelievable. In early January of '05, near the end of a training cycle that was looking like it might get me in marathon p.r. shape, I have an entry that starts "On my right shin the muscle that... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/11/that_shin_thing.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/11/that_shin_thing.html Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:35:18 -0600 Man, it all went by so fast! How did we get here? The past few weeks have been very, very nice, seeing my fitness come around and having running - even 14 miles on a Wednesday morning - become so... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/taper_on.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/taper_on.html Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:04:18 -0600 We moved. We now live very, very close to Town Lake, I mean, Lady Bird Lake Trail. It's amazing. It's stressful. It's chaotic. Did I say it's been stressful? It's been really, really stressful. Our old house just recently went... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/oh_sorry_ive_be.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/oh_sorry_ive_be.html Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:32:48 -0600 This morning’s MGP run wasn’t as awful as I’d imagined. It was actually … good. I had company to actually run my pace, which is even better than when everybody runs their own MGP and you end up running by... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/my_big_fat_mara.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/my_big_fat_mara.html Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:06:04 -0600 Well, “Dad,” funny you should ask about that race. I’d just typed up my race report, and it goes a little something like this: Cedar Perk Five Miler 2007: I had done this five-miler in 1998 and really enjoyed it.... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/cedar_perk_five.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/cedar_perk_five.html Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:56:40 -0600 I take it all back. I just talked to a friend who ran this morning. That sounds just ... awful.... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/regarding_my_pr.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/regarding_my_pr.html Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:43:05 -0600 Suck it up! We had worse weather in Boston in ’04 and we survived! It was 86 degrees! We started at noon! And we had to run up Heartbreak Hill … twice that year! With no shoes! And then we... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/to_those_headin.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/10/to_those_headin.html Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:48:21 -0600 One of the best feelings in the whole entire world is discovering that you love a new song or a new band. And the best part is when you’re at that point where you know most of the verses and... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/09/rockin_in_the_c.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/09/rockin_in_the_c.html Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:54:25 -0600 I’ve been running with less struggle lately. Sometimes it feels effortless. I’m not saying I’m running fast, but I feel much lighter. It could be that the weather has been slightly more mild. It could be that I actually am... http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/09/could_it_be_the.html http://www.running-blogs.com/jenandmats/archives/2007/09/could_it_be_the.html Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:02:29 -0600