Great post, Jenna, and thanks for the shout-out! Since you liked this book, I also highly recommend Christine Yu's Up to Speed.
Do you have any other marathons on calendar? I'm leaning toward running a road marathon again, which in many ways is more challenging and intimidating to me than trail ultras due to the self-imposed pressure to run close to the times I used to run, and to psychologically make peace with where my body is at now. I'm tentatively planning to return to the Napa Valley Marathon in early March because it'll be 30 years since I ran my first marathon there in 1995. Also it'll motivate my wintertime training.
I just put Christine Yu's book on hold at my library - thanks for the rec!
Good luck with Napa and that psychological peace-making. Tough work indeed.
I'm aiming at Seattle Marathon (or maybe the half) in November. It's been a very low mileage year for me so far, so I'm hoping to turn that around. I ran a trail-ish marathon last summer and it's taking longer than usual for me to want to get back into a good training mode. I almost always run a March half marathon but didn't this year :(
I think it helps to focus on the process -- the training -- and not the race. Make weekly and monthly goals having to do with frequency, volume, or meeting a run buddy once/week. Then the race is just the icing on the cake.
Oh wow Jenna, thank you so much for this thoughtful post and for coming out to Elliott Bay last week! This lesson plan is so smart. Let me know if you ever want a guest lecturer ;)
Great read and interesting subject. Just a few weeks ago, a gal in my run group was talking about her teen daughter running a 5k. I mentioned that when I was a teen, the longest running event for girls was a mile—but I ran the 880 because even the female coaches were loathe to promote such a ‘risky’ distance—a whole mile?! The group, mostly women who have lived their whole lives under Title IX, looked at me like I was from another planet. Can’t wait to suggest this book at our 3.7-mile ‘easy’ run next week :)
My mom was always telling me how lucky I was in high school because there was a cross country team for girls. I always used to rolled her eyes at her stories, but now they sure hit different.
Great post, Jenna, and thanks for the shout-out! Since you liked this book, I also highly recommend Christine Yu's Up to Speed.
Do you have any other marathons on calendar? I'm leaning toward running a road marathon again, which in many ways is more challenging and intimidating to me than trail ultras due to the self-imposed pressure to run close to the times I used to run, and to psychologically make peace with where my body is at now. I'm tentatively planning to return to the Napa Valley Marathon in early March because it'll be 30 years since I ran my first marathon there in 1995. Also it'll motivate my wintertime training.
I just put Christine Yu's book on hold at my library - thanks for the rec!
Good luck with Napa and that psychological peace-making. Tough work indeed.
I'm aiming at Seattle Marathon (or maybe the half) in November. It's been a very low mileage year for me so far, so I'm hoping to turn that around. I ran a trail-ish marathon last summer and it's taking longer than usual for me to want to get back into a good training mode. I almost always run a March half marathon but didn't this year :(
I think it helps to focus on the process -- the training -- and not the race. Make weekly and monthly goals having to do with frequency, volume, or meeting a run buddy once/week. Then the race is just the icing on the cake.
So true!
Oh wow Jenna, thank you so much for this thoughtful post and for coming out to Elliott Bay last week! This lesson plan is so smart. Let me know if you ever want a guest lecturer ;)
Will do! I'm excited to teach the lesson next year and let you know how it goes.
I hope you are staying happy and healthy on your book tour :)
Great read and interesting subject. Just a few weeks ago, a gal in my run group was talking about her teen daughter running a 5k. I mentioned that when I was a teen, the longest running event for girls was a mile—but I ran the 880 because even the female coaches were loathe to promote such a ‘risky’ distance—a whole mile?! The group, mostly women who have lived their whole lives under Title IX, looked at me like I was from another planet. Can’t wait to suggest this book at our 3.7-mile ‘easy’ run next week :)
My mom was always telling me how lucky I was in high school because there was a cross country team for girls. I always used to rolled her eyes at her stories, but now they sure hit different.