It took me close to 2 months to right the review for this years Richmond Marathon. I should start off by saying that this year was the 25th anniversary for the race and I was hoping that there would be a bunch of goodies in the goody sack that you receive when you pick up [...]

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Talk about being nervous, this is it, down to last few days before the race actually starts. I saw on the website that there are about 3200 people registered for the marathon at this point! That is a BUNCH of people. Also the weather looks like it is going to be unseasonably warm (in the [...]

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I find that even though I am spending more time in front of the computer, I am getting less fun stuff and more work done, but that should be the case. Unfortunately, I have not been able to keep this site updated like I wanted to. Classes for me are going well. This week is [...]

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I had to get into this whole school thing before I had a chance to update my website. Luckily enough, the computers here at UT have Front Page and FTP, so it may not be so long between updates! YAY! Well, let me update on school, since it is the biggest, newest thing right now. [...]

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Today is the official start of my Marathon Training for Richmond (November 9th). On Today’s plate is a nice 3 mile jaunt providing that it is not super hot and humid outside. Typical marathon training programs consist of 5 types of runs (Rest, Easy, Tempo, Interval and Long). most of my friends think that I [...]

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Training Motto: Four (hours) for Four PERSONAL RECORD @ RICHMOND MARATHON Official Time: 4:09:03 Marathoning: the triumph of desire over reasoning Going into this race I was very scared. I was very undertrained for this race. With the injury to my hamstring, I had not started training when I had wanted to and thus did [...]

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Training Motto: Reach the Beach My training was a little different for this race. I ran half of what I ran for the previous Richmond Marathons, but I did have three 20+ mile runs including a 22 mile trail run in December. I believe these runs helped me with stamina as I did not hit [...]

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Training Motto: Deja Two My training campaign was called “Deja Two”. And was it! I hit the wall at the same place and I finished about the same time. Overall I started slower than last year, which was actually my plan all along. Do some negative splits and I would have plenty of juice at [...]

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Training Motto: Do Not Feed In November 2000, I ran the Richmond Marathon is 4 hrs, 15 min and 55 sec. (officially). What a challenge that was! I did survive with little pain and discomfort, one huge blister and some tight muscles. I was running great, especially for the 1st 1/2 of the marathon. Mile-7 [...]

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