A friend did a solo 8-mile walk this past Sunday to get ready for the upcoming Parkersburg Half Marathon this August. I’ve been telling her how much I love Clif Shot Bloks, and she decided to try them during the walk. After […]
We’ve been doing our hill workouts at Griggs Reservoir in Central Ohio for several months. I was curious how far we have actually been walking, since I don’t have GPS (yet). I went to MapMyWalk and in the satellite view drew our […]
Many Central Ohio walkers were at Fleet Feet last week for a nutrition and hydration clinic presented by Steven Devor of OSU. Dr. Devor is with the Health and Exercise Science Program, and Department of Physiology and Cell Biology and Department of […]
I coerced Elaine and Deb into doing a speed workout with me today. Last week I started doing 1/4 mile sprints at Griggs Reservoir. That first day I did 6 reps. This week was a little harder — the asphalt was hot, […]
Today my training schedule called for an easy 4 miles. On my way home from work, I was positive it would rain while I was out walking. So, what should I wear in the rain? It was about 70 degrees and overcast, […]
14:36 per mile is what I figured we did today. And that was for the entire 7.8 miles we timed. (We used 0.2 for cool down.) This is not fast for many of you, but I have been hovering around a 15-min […]
This is starting to be old hat — Wednesday is hills. But as long as my friends and I continue to sign up for half marathons that are hilly, we’ll have to keep it up. Though today was humid, it wasn’t hot. […]
I’ve known for a while that the only way to be a faster walker is to practice walking faster. (Paraphrasing Dave McGovern.) I also know that if you do the exact same workouts every day, you will never get stronger. Knowing and […]
We started our 7.6-mile training walk at 6:45 Saturday morning in Sharon Woods. Why 7.6? Well, one training schedule said 7 miles, one said 8 miles and Sharon Woods is a 3.8-mile loop. I like to know how fast I’m going and […]
It was a little toasty when we started our hill workout yesterday evening. In fact, it was hot enough that a couple of us felt queasy, so we cut it short. Though we are trying to get acclimated for the August half […]