A lot of times people think that 5K races are for the beginner runner and the more advanced people should be running half and full marathons. But when you think about it, 5K’s can be excellent training tools for a few reasons…. 1. Fat Burners. 5K’s are speed races where we can really push ourselves [...]
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Why Run a 5K?
Posted: October 12, 2011 by MidwestFit in Running and EnduranceTags: 5k race, 5k races, endurance training, health, improve running pace, marathon, midwest fit, midwestfit, reasons to run a 5k, Road running, running, running a 5k, weight loss, why run a 5k
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Before you know it the cold will pass and we will be looking at Spring once again. The holiday’s can be a great time to find some people who might be interested in running a race with you (having a team or someone to do it with helps for motivation). So we are going to [...]
Miles with Myles – Week of 10/4/2010 – Go Time
Posted: October 5, 2010 by runlikeanantelopeoutofcontrol in Miles With Myles, Running and EnduranceWhether you’re ready or not, here it comes. On Sunday, 45,000 runners, walkers, and cyclists will take to the streets of Chicago to test the limits of the mind and body. If you’re reading this and you happen to be one of them, relish in the fact that you get to take it easy until [...]
Miles with Myles – Week of 9/27/2010 – The Taper
Posted: September 27, 2010 by runlikeanantelopeoutofcontrol in Miles With Myles, Running and EnduranceI don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a taper. It’s been a long, hard road over the past 3 months and I really felt it last week. I had to cut my endurance run short on Saturday as my left leg began giving out on me, so I only ended up making it [...]
Week of 9/20/2010 – Miles with Myles – Few More Weeks Until 26.2
Posted: September 20, 2010 by runlikeanantelopeoutofcontrol in Miles With Myles, Running and EnduranceWhile many Chicago Marathon trainers have hit their peak over the past week, we are g0ing to lag a week behind. This week will be our final “tough” week as we hit the top of our training schedule, and then begin our taper next week. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term [...]
Week of 9/13/2010 – Miles with Myles – Time to Move On
Posted: September 13, 2010 by runlikeanantelopeoutofcontrol in Miles With Myles, Running and EnduranceIt was a beautiful morning to race here in Chicago on Sunday. At gun time it was in the mid 50s and it didn’t crawl above 65 before the race was finished. Nonetheless, I had a tough time and didn’t come anywhere near my goal. Once again, I battled some illness that crept up on [...]
Week of 9/6/2010 – Miles with Myles – Time for Redemption
Posted: September 6, 2010 by runlikeanantelopeoutofcontrol in Miles With Myles, Running and EnduranceA lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. -Pre Following a sub par performance in the Rock and Roll Half Marathon earlier this month, I am [...]
Week of 8/26/2010 – Miles with Myles – Reduced Mileage
Posted: August 31, 2010 by runlikeanantelopeoutofcontrol in Miles With Myles, Running and EnduranceI’m not going to lie, toward the end of last week, I was basically a broken man. By the time the 50 minutes was up during Tuesday’s tempo run, the odometer had struck over 8 miles and I was dead. Wednesday was much needed, but still wasn’t enough rest for me. I struggled on Thursday [...]
Week of 8/23/2010 – Miles with Myles – Back at It
Posted: August 23, 2010 by runlikeanantelopeoutofcontrol in Miles With Myles, Running and EnduranceTags: endurance, endurance blog, marathon training, midwest fit, midwestfit, midwestfit.com, miles with myles, running, running blog
I don’t know about you, but after taking it easy last week, I’m definitely ready to get back in to the swing of things with a tough week. This week we’re going to increase the mileage covering nearly 50 miles. This will be the most miles covered to date in training and is undoubtedly going [...]
Week of 8/16/2010 – Miles with Myles – Take er Easy
Posted: August 14, 2010 by runlikeanantelopeoutofcontrol in Miles With Myles, Running and EnduranceI just wrapped up the toughest week I’ve had in a long while. When I was training for Big Sur back in the “Spring” (we don’t really have Spring in Chicago), I promised myself that I would take it easy and not be too intense about the training. When people asked what my goal for [...]
