Final Words of Advice
The starting line is now in sight as we are only a few days from the beginning of the St. Luke’s Half Marathon.
Advice from a Veteran
If the going gets tough remind yourself how lucky you are to be able to run and feel that pain.
In it for the Long Run
It is a few weeks before the St. Luke’s Half Marathon, but instead of worrying about race day performance, I am reflecting on the bigger picture.
A Simple Goal
I felt the sense of urgency this past week as I ran my highest weekly mileage, 33.1 miles, during this training cycle.
Food is Part of Your Training Regimen, Too.
[Blog Update from Running Ambassador Sarah Monte] I love to cook and I love to eat! In this post I am going to focus on good foods and good recipes rather than dieting and weight gain struggles. Not to say that I don’t participate in the two aforementioned topics, but I would rather share my love of food! I enjoy spending the better part of a weekend afternoon planning and preparing a meal. I cook larger meals on the weekends, portion them out and freeze them for quick mid-week meals. It’s so much easier to heat up a main dish and add a simple veggie or grain than having to come up with a whole meal from scratch. I try to buy all our meat and produce locally, so usually we have a random assortment of ingredients which makes for fun creative cooking. I have some wonderful cookbooks that I…
Counting Down the Days
Blog Update from Running Ambassador Chris Stuchko I don’t think I had ever noticed this before, but maybe my role as one of the the 2018 St. Luke’s Half Marathon Running Ambassadors has made me more aware of the countdown to race day clock on the homepage. It is the first thing you see when you visit the page. You can’t miss it. As I see each second tick by while I am visiting the site, it makes me feel like should be racing against something and that I need to put the computer down and get outside to run. At the time you are reading this, it will be fewer than 20 days left before it is time to find that parking spot to make getting back to your car easier. (We may give a lot of tips on this site, but my great parking spot is not one…
Find Your Own Balance
There is no magic diet that makes you a better runner; no superfood found deep in the rainforest that cuts minutes off your half marathon time. If there was, who among us as runners, would not be implementing it?
Less is More
Blog Update from Running Ambassador Sarah Monte I know this makes me a minority in sports, but fancy equipment has never really been my thing. I started running long distance in a pair of old Chuck Taylors, but as I ran more often and longer distances I saw the value of a good pair of dedicated running shoes. Over the years I have learned what equipment I think is worth spending good money on. Sneakers (aka ‘tennis shoes’ here in Tennessee!) are definitely my most coveted and highly priced item. Let me just talk about feet for a bit (sorry). I had horrible bunions most of my running years. I finally had surgery on both of them over two successive years and it is one of the best things I have ever done for myself. I have so many more options for sneakers and don’t have excruciating pain during and…