The Freund Chronicles.

WHAT DOES MARATHON TRAINING LOOK LIKE ?? I get a lot of questions regarding how a week of mileage looks and how to balance everything you need to do to stay healthy. This has been a HUGE learning curve for me the past 12 months , I still don't have it all figured out, but I think that's what keeps things fresh and fun, is your always learning.  FULL MARATHON TRAINING A glance at my notes from past weeks ! My Grandma's Marathon Training was quite a bit more intense then the half marathon training I'm doing right now.  Throughout the 16-20 weeks leading up to Grandma's a typical week looked something like this. Monday - 8 miles (easy comfortable pace) Tuesday - 8 miles (in the winter inside) Usually Track Warm Up and Cool Down - 5-6 miles on the treadmill doing some sort of a hill or speed workout (ie. treadmill at 4% incline .. Rounds of 200s, 400s, 1/2 mile or mile repeats) Wednesday - A mix of different workouts, swimming, spinning, an easy few...

                 Grandma's Marathon Race ReCap                              June 16, 2018  Friday  I have been doing a lot of reflecting on Grandma's Marathon, which took place just about a month ago now. I've tried hard to think back to all the moments throughout our time in Duluth, as it is easy for it all to be a blur. Overall, we had a fantastic time. The event is very well run. We arrived Friday early afternoon and went right to where we were staying, some friends, a few miles from downtown. One thing I appreciate about this, as the participate/athlete, you get away from the commotion of all the people around for the race and can relax. We took our time getting down to the race expo/packet pick-up. Had we done this again, I would not have waited as long as we did. Traffic was heavy and it took quite sometime to get parked down in Canal Park and ...