Archive for Month: January 2011

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Fitness Friday: Treadmill games

I’m two weeks into my half-marathon training, following Hal Higdon’s 12-week novice training program.  His training programs have gotten me through two marathons and sixteen half-marathons since 2004.  Why novice as I approach my seventeenth half-marathon? I alternate between the novice and intermediate programs, based on where I am at that moment in my training.  I took a good deal of time off from running in the fall to nurse an IT band issue so my base is only about 9 – 12 miles a week; novice feels right for winter training.  Winter training. Sigh.  We have had so much […]