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Top 5 Friday: Best advice for beginners
posted on July 30, 2010 at 10:10am
A friend who started running recently asked me what to do about sore knees her workouts. She doesn’t have any pain and is fine when walking around but get to a set of stairs and her knees just ache.
I have to be honest. I kinda smiled. Because it’s s...more
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Jalapeno juice burns eyes
posted on July 30, 2010 at 9:43am
D.C. summer, I am officially over you.I've had enough of your wicked thunderstorms leaving me, my friends and various business establishments without power.It happened again last night. An afternoon thunderstorm rolled through the area while I was at work...more
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Dream Interrupted
posted on July 29, 2010 at 11:18pm
I was in the middle of the strangest, yet most interesting dream ever when my alarm went off this morning. I dreamed I was back at my old job at the newspaper, but I wasn't friends with any of the same people, and I worked for a different editor and was g...more
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West Nile, Flat Tires and Mental Training
posted on July 29, 2010 at 12:17pm
On an easy run day, Best Boyfriend Mark asked if I wanted to do a trail run with him and and a friend. Sure, I said after confirming that (a) his training plan called for an easy paced run and (b) it would, in fact, be easy paced by my standards.
Once ...more
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Chisago Lakes Triathlon 2010- Race Report
posted on July 29, 2010 at 11:23am
I decided to race Chisago again this year, somewhat on a whim.
My race schedule originally had penciled in my first ultra, the Voyageur 50mile trail race, near Duluth, Minnesota for this weekend, but my lack of long runs at mid-June and early season illn...more
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Abeylegesse from Turkey wins Gold Medal In 10000m race In Barcelona
posted on July 29, 2010 at 10:59am
BARCELONA - Turkish athlete Elvan Abeylegesse won women's 10,000m at the European Athletics Championships at Barcelona's Olympic stadium.
Abeylegesse, Turkey's first world record holder, --at 5,000m in Bergen in 2004-- clinched Turkey's first gold meda...more
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San Francisco 2nd Half Race Report
posted on July 28, 2010 at 2:05pm
Last year I ran the first half of the San Francisco Marathon. It was tough but the views and running across the golden gate bridge were thrilling. It also was at the somewhat beginning of my ‘racing’ career, if you want to call it that. So this year, ...more
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Negative Splits at Last
posted on July 28, 2010 at 10:26am
So that big thunderstorm that still has lots of people without power, had one positive effect. It pulled the temperatures down several degrees. It did nothing for the humidity and the dew point, but this morning the soup bowl that I'm used to running thro...more
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McCartney/adidas introduce glow-in-the-dark running gear
posted on July 26, 2010 at 4:15pm
In the midst of creating her RTW collections and being tapped to design the GB uniforms for the 2012 Olympic Games, Stella McCartney has managed to come up with another great sportswear idea in collaboration with Adidas.
As we enter the Fall/Winter 2010 ...more
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Eliterunning will be back mid-September, early October
posted on July 26, 2010 at 10:09am
I apologize for taking several weeks to write this; for those of you still checking the site for regular news updates, blog updates and interviews, I sincerely apologize for the recent silence. After a very brave and courageous battle with heart and ski...more
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Don’t be a hero in the heat.
posted on July 25, 2010 at 12:18pm
We all have heard the phrase “pain is weakness leaving the body”. I hate this phrase. While we should push ourselves beyond the point of comfort, we shouldn’t be stupid. **Note: there is a difference between emotional pain, telling yourself you ca...more
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Hennepin-Lake Classic coupon code
posted on July 23, 2010 at 1:26pm
Have you registered for this summer's Hennepin-Lake Classic yet? 2010 marks the 33rd running of this Minneapolis late summer tradition. This year's event is Sunday, August 1.This is one of my favorite races all year. (And, no, my favorites are not only ev...more
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Goals for San Francisco Half Marathon
posted on July 23, 2010 at 12:35pm
This weekend I’ll be up in San Francisco for the Marathon Events up there. Since they are a part of the CA Dreamin’ series that Long Beach is a part of as well, we are going to the expo and involved in a lot of parts of the race. Perhaps you remember ...more
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First run sans Garmie
posted on July 21, 2010 at 9:57am
This morning was my first ran sans Garmie since I got the little guy a few months ago. His battery died five minutes in. I'm usually so anal retentive about making sure it's charged, but I forgot yesterday.So this morning I was supposed to do 1.75 out and...more
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Four Shoe Review
posted on July 20, 2010 at 2:18pm
After the whole beloved Nike Volmero but my toes won’t stop bleeding debacle ( don’t click if you don’t like blood ), I decided it was time for new shoes. I visited the K-Swiss Store in Santa Monica one day and picked up two new awesome pairs of sho...more
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A few words from a former data-junkie
posted on July 20, 2010 at 11:54am
Hello, my name is Megan, and I am a recovering data junkie.
You see, I’ve been clean now for nearly three weeks. My GPS watch has been stowed away in my suitcase since my trip to Florida, and I took the PowerTap SL+ out of my online shopping cart. My h...more
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Finding the right thoughts
posted on July 20, 2010 at 11:12am
What do you think about when you run?
A friend asked me that question recently, in sincere curiosity, and at the time I struggled with my answer.
Hmm.
What do I think about when I run?
Some days, I think about things in my life: work, family, relation...more
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Seven training observations
posted on July 20, 2010 at 9:38am
I'm just about a quarter of the through my training plan for the Rock N Roll Philly Half Marathon and I wanted to share my observations so far.1. Getting up at 5 a.m. gets easier and easier. It's definitely darker at 5 a.m. now than it was earlier this su...more
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Are you Gas Powered?
posted on July 19, 2010 at 5:11pm
Tomorrow will be the shoe review that I’ve been promising. I’ve also finally made a video of curling my hair with a straightener that so many people ask for. Now, I have to admit something to you. It’s rather embarrassing, but hey, it’s life.
So...more
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What I’ve been doing for 10 days away from Blogland
posted on July 19, 2010 at 10:27am
I admit it. It’s been a while. It’s been a whirlwind, ridiculous, awesome (and busy) ten days. There’ve been weddings, races, weekends, and wine.
The craziness began with an 11hour drive and a wedding downstate. Baberaham stood up in his great frie...more
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5 steps to heal plantar fasciitis: After getting hit by a car
posted on July 17, 2010 at 9:12am
It's been exactly two and a half months since my last blog post about treating plantar fasciitis and it is with great disapointment that I must report that MY HEEL STILL HURTS. And, you know that really sucks and I'm tired of blogging about it and it's no...more
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18 miles or bust. I went bust.
posted on July 16, 2010 at 7:33pm
So I started off on my 18 miler this morning and by mile 2 my calves were killing me. Not a good sign on a long run. Some Backstory: I had tried out two different pairs of Brooks shoes recently. The Ghost and Glycerin. They both just didn’t fit right on...more
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Top 5 Friday: Best Race Swag
posted on July 16, 2010 at 9:39am
Each year I sift through my closet and make a pile of clothes to donate to charitable organizations. Inevitably the pile includes a fair amount of race t-shirts. Some of them I keep — from races that were memorable for some reason or because I really li...more
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New running playlist
posted on July 15, 2010 at 3:57pm
I realized I haven’t done a music post in forever and after my long run last weekend with my new playlist I knew it was time to share some gems on the blog! I love so many of these songs. Of course, Eminem’s new cd is awesome to run too, but there are...more
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