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Ottawa Marathon 2013

This year will be the fifth consecutive year that I have run the Ottawa Marathon. Overall it will be my eighth marathon. In order to get ready for the marathon my training will be based on the same plan I … Continue reading

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Plans for January

As mentioned on here previously my goal race for the first half of this year is the Ottawa Marathon in May. My training plan for the marathon will be the same as I have used to prepare for my last … Continue reading

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Week 13 of Training for the Ottawa Marathon

  Week 13 of training is nearly complete. All that remains are a run home from work this evening and a final run tomorrow. Those two runs will bring me up to 90 (56 miles) km for the week, the second … Continue reading

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Week 11 of Training for the Ottawa Marathon

Week 11 of training for the Ottawa Marathon is nearly complete. It was another solid week of training that began with a personal best when I ran a sub 1:30 half-marathon Sunday morning. With one run remaining tomorrow my mileage … Continue reading

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Week 10 of Training for the Ottawa Marathon

Week 10 of training is nearly complete following tonight’s easy 10 km run. Another easy 10 km run tomorrow will leave me nearly 60 km for the week. This week was a bit of a transition week coming of my … Continue reading

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Week 9 of Training for the Ottawa Marathon

Week nine of my 16 week training for the Ottawa Marathon is nearly complete. So far I have completed 58 km (36 miles). Tomorrow I am contemplating getting in my second 30 + km run of my training schedule which … Continue reading

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Changes to my Training

Since I started training for this year’s Ottawa Marathon I made two changes to my training that I had not initially planned on when started training. The two changes have been increased speed work and hill training. Obviously these are … Continue reading

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Week 8 of Training for the Ottawa Marathon

With just one run left week eight of training for the Ottawa Marathon is nearly complete. I’ll end the week with a 14 km run tomorrow to give me 80 km for the week. So far this will be my … Continue reading

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Week 6 of Training for the Ottawa Marathon

Week six is nearly complete. All that remains is a 10 km race tomorrow, you can read about that here. Tomorrow’s race will leave me with just over 70 km for the week which close to what I expected based … Continue reading

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Week 4 of Training for the Ottawa Marathon

With five of my six runs this week complete week four of my training for the 2012 Ottawa Marathon is nearly complete. My final run will be a 10-12 km run tomorrow morning. This week’s schedule called for a total … Continue reading

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