injury & recovery The Foam Roller is My Friend October 9, 20100 My massage therapist, Gayla, has been after me forever to foam roll my legs more. “The foam roller is your friend,” is what she always …
injury & recovery Achilles Tendonitis October 5, 20100 Went to see Dr. Ellspermann today, and the good news is I have achilles tendonitis. Not hard to fix. He worked on me this morning …
injury & recovery Good and Bad October 2, 20100 It’s funny how I can have really good runs and feel really bad. Ok, maybe not REALLY bad, but what I mean is I clearly have …
training Fall Weather! September 27, 20100 Today’s workout was heaven. I can’t help but contrast it to the last time we did descending mile repeats. On August 30, I had 3 …
training Proud Online Coach September 12, 20100 A while back (actually, in May) my friend Courtenay sent me a note. One of her friends had written to ask if she knew anything about …
training Ups and Downs September 10, 20100 I had a really bang out, fun, good run on Tuesday. It was raining; I’d planned on heading to the gym and working out but …
training Let’s Call That Run a Draw September 6, 20100 I had some thoughts about me and the heat today. I had plenty of time to think as I walked in the last mile of …
training Glow September 2, 20100 Coach Gilbert pulled me aside at the end of Wednesday’s workout. He told me that he’d been watching me do my mile repeats on Monday and …
training Call It a Draw: Heat 1/Leah 1 August 23, 20100 I was a bit apprehensive about this morning’s workout. Saturday had been miserable, and I’d spent the rest of the day in a stupor, lying …
training Heat 1: Leah 0 August 21, 20100 Today was awful. I was struggling before the sun came up and then, by mile 8, I was nauseous. My friend Lindsey was with me …
