Maria's Running Blog

Maria, good training is training without injury, and sometimes running 3 times a week keeps you injury free. Most of my marathons have been run based on 3 to 4 running days a week. I focus on avoiding injuries and lots of recovery, which is important as you get older, like me.

Regarding your question about my medication. I'm still on prednisone, at 6 mg per day. No side affects that I am aware of. Just waiting until the muscle strength is all the way back to normal. Hopefully by next spring it will all be over. Regards, Paul

When you run less, your nerves are feistier, so you go faster when you can. If you tried the same course at threshold, you would notice the effort not be able to go too fast. I've seen that happen with less trained training partners. On an easy run they are just going nuts, essentially running their half-marathon or even 10 K race pace at least in the first few miles, and act comfortable while I am laboring trying to keep up. Yet I know that if I just speed up to my marathon race pace, I would drop them, and when I decide I am done with this easy not easy run all of a sudden they start saying "How much longer are we going to go at this pace?".