Welp, one last week at home before the NHL season starts. Here we go!
Week 14 of 19: Overview
Week 14 Workouts
Start the week with a sangria flight, end it in LONG SLEEVES. Is fall finally showing up?
Hyperfocus of the Week: Adequate Carbohydrate Intake
After getting my ass handed to me by the unseasonably warm conditions during the 2022 NYC Marathon, I knew that I couldn’t show up to the start line in 2023 with a plan to do the same thing and expect a different result. I had to work on it.
Enter Featherstone Nutrition. After Meghann’s content was recommended to me and mentioned/tagged by multiple people in the run space, I started following her earlier in the year. In the Spring/Summer, she announced her Fall Marathon Group Nutrition Coaching program, and I eagerly committed.
Throughout the 10 week program, each week focused on specific areas (eg carbs, sodium/hydration, etc) that we could focus on as we continuously trained and experimented to find what worked for us. This week, I decided to crunch the numbers once and for all to see how and why I was still managing to hit the wall during longer efforts, even though I was fueling at time intervals that the packaging recommended.
Participating in the group coaching series has truly been a game changer during this training cycle. Instead of under-fueled long runs, fasted morning runs and sportsdrinkaphobia… I’m slowly and surely coming to the realization that consuming the proper nutrition before/during/after a run is what’s going to keep me going, not slow me down.
It wasn’t until I did the math, and visually laid it out, that I realized that fueling every 45 minutes has never been (and will never be) enough for me.
Marathon training is one big ol’ science experiment and I LOVE it.
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Catch up with previous weeks in this series…
By the Numbers: 2023 NYC Marathon Training · Weeks 1-4
If you’re seeing this now and are wondering “why didn’t I see this if it’s been up since July?” It hasn’t. Backdating posts FTW, y’all. The magic of the internet.…
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By the Numbers: 2023 NYC Marathon Training · Week 5
Week 5 is the first time I’ve called an audible and rescheduled a run day of. I do my best to stick to the plan, but when your body says…
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By the Numbers: 2023 NYC Marathon Training · Week 6
Week 6 ended up being a two-parter over on Instagram, because I’m having too much fun making what is turning into a weekly powerpoint presentation of @nycmarathon training. Week 6 of 19:…
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