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After our post-race respites in June, we are back on the training wagon as of July, getting ready for the Marine Corps Marathon. We’re doing the coolrunning advanced marathon training plan. It’s been really fun to train together! We don’t do every run together, but most of the long weekend runs and speed or hill […]

A little under a year ago I raced in my first ever triathlon, the Powow Sprint Triathlon in Amesbury, MA. After that race, I wanted to do something a bit longer. The sprint distance goes by so fast and is over in under 90 minutes. In September of last year I completed the Lobsterman Olympic […]

Week ending 5/9: Brian’s Week 14 update. Swim: 7200m Bike: 47mi Run: 23mi. Highlights: First 3km swim workout and ran a 10k at 7:50 pace midweek. Lowlights: Nothing major. Great week after having a down week previously. Only 6 weeks until the race. Susan: This was a taper week, so I did an easy 5 […]

I have lots of thoughts about running my first ultra (a race longer than a marathon) today. Here are a few: I met all my goals and I definitely feel that I vindicated myself from October’s marathon. 1. Finish! 2. Don’t Bonk 2a. Eat. 2b. Stay hydrated. 2c. Learn to pace myself – it’s ok […]

We were on vacation last week (post to follow) so we’ll wrap up April a bit off-cycle. Brian: April training totals: (swim 11,900m) (bike 182.6mi) (run: 64.9mi) (hike 3 hrs). Vacation to NOLA cut into my training numbers although I still managed to run 15 miles on vacation. Only 7 weeks left until the race. […]

Brian: Week 11 training update! Swim: 1750m. Bike: 119.2mi. Run: 10mi. Highlight: New swim PR for 100m, first 100 mile bike week since 1999, awesome 10mi run with Su today. Lowlight: Continued lack of motivation to start my workouts. This week: Recovery and vacation! Sunday – Huge swim progress. Swam 6×100 speed sets today all […]

Susan: It was a light week in terms of days running – only 3 – but got in a long 21 mile run Saturday, starting with Beej at Maudslay and then tagging on another loop. I bought new Asics trail shoes and did my first run in them. I’ve also got new Innov8 shoes to […]

Brian: Week 8 tri training update. Recovery week. 1150m swim, 32.3 mi bike, 13.7 mi run. Highlight: A nice 7 mile trail run in the hills. Lowlight: My quads the day after the trail run in the hills. This week I get to do my first bike power test in a while. Hopefully I’ll see […]

A highlight of March was completing a major milestone on my program at work. Less than a year ago, I took on our site’s largest program, which was about half-way complete and $1M over budget. Some might have said then that signing up to manage that program was a risk. I certainly saw it as […]

Brian: Week 6 tri update: 4500m swim, 28.2mi bike, 11.6 mi run. Highlight: I did speed work running and swimming and felt strong. Lowlight: Used 10 inches of rain and hoops as an excuse to skip 3 workouts. Week 7 tri training summary. Swim: 3950m. Bike: 69.4 mi. Run: 19.1 mi. Highlights: 38 mile ride […]