Running Addiction

Monday, July 25, 2016

Night Running - Candlelight 12 hour Race Report

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So I ran the Candlelight 12 hour overnight race last Saturday.   This was a brand new race which sounded unique and interesting – a race wh...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Musings on pain, speed, and energy

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So – I believe it was in the Laurel Highlands race report that Pat McHenry posted not too long ago that energy and pain were not necessa...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

100 Mile Training – the race that wasn’t, the race that was, and general update

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So – here I am, 54 days out from my 100 miler.   Just started hitting the heavy mileage back to back weekends a couple weeks ago with ...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

The nearly perfect run

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I generally know if a run is going to be good within about a minute of starting out.   This morning’s plan was Murphy Hill.   I didn’t d...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

The first step is admitting you have a problem...

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My husband informed me that the closest thing to exercise addiction is opiate addiction. He should know.   He is a pharmacist. So ...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Ultra #4 - BPAC 6 hour Race Report

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Ultra #4 - BPAC 6 Hour Endurance Challenge So I completed my 4 th Ultramarathon yesterday at the BPAC 6 Hour Endurance Challenge.   Ra...
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Amy Mower
I started running at age 29, after I quit a 2-pack-a-day smoking habit. I was worried about gaining weight, and so I committed to 30 minutes of regular exercise 3 days out of 4. I began running longer distances in 2008, when I joined my brother David and his wife Cindy in training for the Army 10-miler. I learned something pretty amazing - which is, to learn to run longer, you have to... run longer. Wow. What a concept. The 10 mile training was so exhilarating that I wanted to keep going, so I signed up for a February marathon. My sister-in-law had told me about the Jeff Galloway run-walk method, and I thought I might be able to finish a marathon if I followed that sort of a plan. It worked for me - and I used I to complete another 5 marathons over the next several years. I ran my first full marathon without walk breaks in June of 2014. I completed my first "ultra" marathon at CanLakes in October of 2015. Since that time I've completed 2 100'mile races, 3 24 hour's, several 12's, 48 hours at ARFTA, and most recently 72 hours at ATY. Presently I'm running 80-100 miles a week and setting my sights on more and possibly longer multi-day events.
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