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 into the DECC.  We walked through the EXPO and grabbed my packet and had dinner at the Spaghetti feed. Food was gre