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Posts tagged “half-marathon”

Day 29: The Plan

Posted on August 11, 2014

full metal jacket

Okay, friends, now that you have a little motivation, some proper shoes, and possibly a Fitbit, it’s time for the training plan.  Drill Sergeant Joe emailed me a spreadsheet, detailing how often, how far, and in what length of time I should walk every week.  Feel free to follow it with me, whether you’ll be in San Antonio in December to watch me face plant in front of the “lag wagon” half way through or are supporting from afar.  (You read that right – “lag wagon.”  Remember when I joked there would be an official who could scrape me off the asphalt, pour me into a golf cart, and convey me back to my car that unfolds into a movie theater playing a Rocky marathon”?  Turns out that’s half true!)  Happy walking, team.

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Training Schedule

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Categories: Team Monster

Tagged: #teammonster, half-marathon, marathon, training, walking

Day One: Team Monster

Posted on July 14, 2014

Saturday morning, with my cell phone slipping in my sweaty hand, the weight of it yanking the tangled cord of the ear buds, I stop on a street corner to GPS my location.  I’m in my own neighborhood.  It’s the sort with aging oaks and pecan trees angling over mansions with the occasional 1950s ranch house where the 1950s ranch houses haven’t been torn down to accommodate more mansions.  Guess which kind of house I live in?  So I wander around the neighborhood in the ambitious ensemble of running shorts plus coordinating tank top, gawking at the grand structures past the giant agave and iron gates, taking more than one wrong turn along the way.

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