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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 26 - Completed, I am 2 behind
Two weeks of extreme heat, lack of sleep and mourning a relative.
It was hard today, my legs were heavy. -
52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 26 - Completed, I am 2 behind
Two weeks of extreme heat, lack of sleep and mourning a relative.
It was hard today, my legs were heavy. -
My favourite road race, the GMS Queen City Marathon in Regina, SK, is still 2 months away. They added 75 additional spots in the 42.2km, and even with them, it just sold out. The 21.1k is already 71% sold out, too!
Since 2020, I've run/walked the 21.1km, the 10km, and one of the 5kms virtually every year from Saskatoon. It's nice to have the flexibility to do it wherever in the world one is (and whenever one wants instead of having to be on course early on a Sunday morning!)
This year, they're also allowing people to opt out of getting a race shirt and, instead, contribute $10 to charity, which is nice for those of us drowning in race shirts.
If anyone wants to sign up for any of the remaining QCM events, you can get a 10% discount with the code JASMINE10 at https://runqcm.ca.
#running #runner #runnersofmastodon #marathon #halfmarathon #run #runningcommunity #5k #10k #roadrace #runQCM
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My favourite road race, the GMS Queen City Marathon in Regina, SK, is still 2 months away. They added 75 additional spots in the 42.2km, and even with them, it just sold out. The 21.1k is already 71% sold out, too!
Since 2020, I've run/walked the 21.1km, the 10km, and one of the 5kms virtually every year from Saskatoon. It's nice to have the flexibility to do it wherever in the world one is (and whenever one wants instead of having to be on course early on a Sunday morning!)
This year, they're also allowing people to opt out of getting a race shirt and, instead, contribute $10 to charity, which is nice for those of us drowning in race shirts.
If anyone wants to sign up for any of the remaining QCM events, you can get a 10% discount with the code JASMINE10 at https://runqcm.ca.
#running #runner #runnersofmastodon #marathon #halfmarathon #run #runningcommunity #5k #10k #roadrace #runQCM
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I practiced yoga for four years. I thought I knew savasana. I was good at lying down.
There's a difference between rest and performing rest, I didn't know it.
When did you realize you'd been performing rest, not feeling it?
#savasana #yogarest #embodiedpractice
#runningandyoga #halfmarathon #yogapractice
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 25 - Tackling 2 killer climbs
My Achilles are on fire -
I didn't know how to truly rest until I ran twenty-one kilometers.
My body always had something to protect. The race was the first time it didn't.
Has effort ever opened something that rest alone couldn't reach?
Read the full essay
https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/running-a-half-marathon-changed-my-savasana-f8286317d16c
#savasana #runningandyoga #halfmarathon
#embodiedpractice #effortandease #yogalife
#contemplativepractice #runningmeditation #yogaphilosophy -
52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 24 - Hard climbing day
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 24 - Hard climbing day
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I just entered the ballot for next year's London Landmark Half Marathon taking place in April 2027. If I manage to get a place, this will be my second time running the #HalfMarathon. And it would be the first time I’ve run a city event more than once, as I'm not really a city runner.
But last time I really enjoyed the LLHM a lot - such positive vibes, and all for a good cause. It’s one of the biggest charity events I know of.
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I just entered the ballot for next year's London Landmark Half Marathon taking place in April 2027. If I manage to get a place, this will be my second time running the #HalfMarathon. And it would be the first time I’ve run a city event more than once, as I'm not really a city runner.
But last time I really enjoyed the LLHM a lot - such positive vibes, and all for a good cause. It’s one of the biggest charity events I know of.
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 23 - completed
Today was hard. Too hot, the Sintra trais are closed due to fire hazard. My Achilles were killing me.
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 23 - completed
Today was hard. Too hot, the Sintra trais are closed due to fire hazard. My Achilles were killing me.
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 22 completed
After yesterday’s 4 hours on the MTB trail it was not easy to go out today. I did a very similar route to last week and faced the freakin wind again.
I went very late to maximize my recovery.
Instead of the east sun I got the west sunset. Different way to shoot the landscape -
52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 22 completed
After yesterday’s 4 hours on the MTB trail it was not easy to go out today. I did a very similar route to last week and faced the freakin wind again.
I went very late to maximize my recovery.
Instead of the east sun I got the west sunset. Different way to shoot the landscape -
C'est fait ! 2h39 l'année dernière, 2h32 cette année ! 22km 500d+
Énormément de marches qui m'ont mise à rude épreuve (coeur à 180 bpm a la fin de la montée 😨) mais c'est fait ! Pour la petite info j'étais hospitalisée la semaine dernière et pas sûre de prendre le départ donc je suis quand même super fière d'avoir fini 🥺 #run #running #runnersofmastodon #trail #urbantrail #lehavre #halfmarathon #happy #sport #photo #motivation -
C'est fait ! 2h39 l'année dernière, 2h32 cette année ! 22km 500d+
Énormément de marches qui m'ont mise à rude épreuve (coeur à 180 bpm a la fin de la montée 😨) mais c'est fait ! Pour la petite info j'étais hospitalisée la semaine dernière et pas sûre de prendre le départ donc je suis quand même super fière d'avoir fini 🥺 #run #running #runnersofmastodon #trail #urbantrail #lehavre #halfmarathon #happy #sport #photo #motivation -
52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 21 completed
It has been a long week of stress and lack of sleep but I have not been skipping my runs. Today I was not particularly strong but was very disciplined and controlled and many personal bests fell :)
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 21 completed
It has been a long week of stress and lack of sleep but I have not been skipping my runs. Today I was not particularly strong but was very disciplined and controlled and many personal bests fell :)
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Finished a 21k half-marathon in 2h37m7s (not 1337) on McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Bocadillos, Tapas and Estrella Galicia. #running #halfmarathon @RunningMethod
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Finished a 21k half-marathon in 2h37m7s (not 1337) on McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Bocadillos, Tapas and Estrella Galicia. #running #halfmarathon @RunningMethod
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 20 - one last tour in Salamanca
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 20 - one last tour in Salamanca
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Yesterday was race day in Gothenburg for their annual Göteborgsvarvet, my second time to race here. Not as good as last time but just as enjoyable #running
#halfmarathon #coros #runnersofmastodon -
Yesterday was race day in Gothenburg for their annual Göteborgsvarvet, my second time to race here. Not as good as last time but just as enjoyable #running
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Now that’s what you call carbing up #raceprep #pizza #running #halfmarathon
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Now that’s what you call carbing up #raceprep #pizza #running #halfmarathon
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 19 - climbing has been made
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 19 - climbing has been made
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Distance running and finishing books
I’ve spent the last year fixated on how similar writing books is to distance running. If you treat the task as a singular thing, it can be overwhelming, whereas if you chunk it up into manageable units it becomes entirely doable. If you go by chapter-by-chapter there comes a point at which you suddenly realise you’re almost done. If you break up a race into particular phases (which increasingly for me are defined by when I take the energy gels) something huge starts to feel entirely manageable. The sense of what you can do expands through this dynamic as you get more practiced at doing it. If you just keep showing up consistently, it’s almost magical how something happens which you once wouldn’t have been able to imagine.
Now that I’m finishing my latest book while also getting close to marathon distance, I realise there’s a difference as well. There’s often a feeling of elation I get towards the end of a long run, particularly for a race. A sense of being entirely in flow, lost in a rhythm that entirely decenters the continual stream of stuff that litters my internal conversation. There’s a joy to getting lost in the process, surrendering to it. I’m reliably forcing myself to stop because I need my dodgy ankle to get used to the distance, rather than because I want to stop. I’ve only once come close to the point where I had to stop and that was a competitive half marathon in torrential rain, when I’d fucked up by going too quickly in the first few miles on a course that was far too hilly for my tastes. Otherwise I don’t want to stop.
Whereas with the end of a book I want so much to stop. I want it to be over. The pleasure of the process has long since passed. I’m being forced to do it. I know that if I don’t do it the thing I’ve spent so long on will never be read by the people I want to read it. But it’s a slog. Not in the life affirming sense of the half marathon in the rain (I’ve rarely felt more physically uncomfortable nor more viscerally alive than I did when the picture below was taken) but in the “CAN I NOT JUST STOP NOW PLEASE?” sense. This post is a desperate plea to myself to keep going because I’m actually about 4 hours of work away from finishing this ✊
#books #distanceRunning #fitness #halfMarathon #marathon #running #Training #writing -
Distance running and finishing books
I’ve spent the last year fixated on how similar writing books is to distance running. If you treat the task as a singular thing, it can be overwhelming, whereas if you chunk it up into manageable units it becomes entirely doable. If you go by chapter-by-chapter there comes a point at which you suddenly realise you’re almost done. If you break up a race into particular phases (which increasingly for me are defined by when I take the energy gels) something huge starts to feel entirely manageable. The sense of what you can do expands through this dynamic as you get more practiced at doing it. If you just keep showing up consistently, it’s almost magical how something happens which you once wouldn’t have been able to imagine.
Now that I’m finishing my latest book while also getting close to marathon distance, I realise there’s a difference as well. There’s often a feeling of elation I get towards the end of a long run, particularly for a race. A sense of being entirely in flow, lost in a rhythm that entirely decenters the continual stream of stuff that litters my internal conversation. There’s a joy to getting lost in the process, surrendering to it. I’m reliably forcing myself to stop because I need my dodgy ankle to get used to the distance, rather than because I want to stop. I’ve only once come close to the point where I had to stop and that was a competitive half marathon in torrential rain, when I’d fucked up by going too quickly in the first few miles on a course that was far too hilly for my tastes. Otherwise I don’t want to stop.
Whereas with the end of a book I want so much to stop. I want it to be over. The pleasure of the process has long since passed. I’m being forced to do it. I know that if I don’t do it the thing I’ve spent so long on will never be read by the people I want to read it. But it’s a slog. Not in the life affirming sense of the half marathon in the rain (I’ve rarely felt more physically uncomfortable nor more viscerally alive than I did when the picture below was taken) but in the “CAN I NOT JUST STOP NOW PLEASE?” sense. This post is a desperate plea to myself to keep going because I’m actually about 4 hours of work away from finishing this ✊
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fXWH9ToFwk
#books #distanceRunning #fitness #halfMarathon #marathon #running #Training #writing -
52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 18, again 24k - it was hard today. I had four consecutive days of only 4 hours of sleep and it showed. I also started later than usual to try to avoid the rain.
Long climbs today. -
Another beautiful day for a run.
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The final 20 km run before the half-marathon. So a total of 200 km over the last four weeks. My legs feel really heavy, and I have never looked forward to tapering this much before. I know that many people do significantly more than this, but I’m too old for that. 😅 By the way, it really was just 20 km; the +470 m is just the usual GPS error from my Fenix 3.
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Have you ever carried a teacher's words for years and felt them land only mid-run?
A quote from Rishikesh, years in my journal. Kilometer fourteen made it real.
Have you ever understood a teaching only by living it?
Read the full essay
https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/running-a-half-marathon-changed-my-savasana-f8286317d16c
#halfmarathon #effortandease #yoga
#runningandyoga #yogawisdom #embodiedpractice
#contemplativepractice #runningmeditation #savasana
