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It has been almost 2 weeks, and my ass has been kicked. I am dealing with the last of it, and hope to soon have a chest clear of phlegm. After being down for 2 weeks, after doing only 2 weeks of my new cycle, I feel like I need to make up ground. SO. [...]

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So, there was a lil’ bit of an issue on my 15 mile run on Sunday.  Namely, my ankle, which had previously been only a “whiny bee-yatch” on the Smurfway Express to Half Marathon Greatness, decided to completely crap out on me at mile 10 or so.  This could have been blamed on any number [...]

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Sometimes I forget how energized you can feel when you come out of a slump.  July 21st, I started to come down with a bit of a cold.  (Feeling under the weather, and really low energy.)  I listened to my body and decided to give myself a bit of a rest.  I only worked out [...]

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So, no, I didn’t run anything this year, though I’d secretly harbored hopes to lumber through a half on my ten-mile-max long-run schedule. Nor did contributor RocketGirl (Jody/Muppet.) I was riding the pine with over-aspirational training and a stress fracture, she with a wonderfully though-out training plan that culminated with a sucky luck-of-the-draw case of [...]

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Yeah, yeah, so… I broke my foot. Technically, I have a “stress fracture of the second metatarsal.” Which I’m thrilled to report is also called the “Beckham Bone” after one David Beckham who broke his in a slide tackle trying to win the World Cup. I just broke mine being a dumbfuck. Here’s the thing… [...]

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