Weekly training recaps — the miles, the setbacks, and everything in between.
This is my Indianapolis Monumental Marathon training week 12 recap covering every run from September 29 to October 4, 2026. A hilly easy 7 with stomach pain, a treadmill marathon pace and half marathon pace workout through acid reflux, the…
This is my Indianapolis Monumental Marathon training week 11 recap covering every run from September 22–27, 2026. A hilly easy 7 back in the Novablast 5s, a half marathon pace workout that broke me mentally, a forgotten watch that turned…
This is my Indianapolis Monumental Marathon training week 10 recap covering every run from September 15–20, 2026. A deload week with an easy 6, a one-hour progression run, a rainy-weekend 6 miler squeezed in between showers, and a 13-mile long…
This is my Indianapolis Monumental Marathon training week 8 recap covering every run from September 1–8, 2026. A brutal late-summer heat wave with a real feel of 106 pushed speed work indoors, a new lunchtime gym habit got tested, and…
This is my Indianapolis Monumental Marathon training week 7 recap covering every run from August 25–30, 2026. What was supposed to be the second of two deload weeks after the derecho turned into a 35.25-mile week with a longest-run-ever 16-miler…
This is my Indianapolis Monumental Marathon training week 6 recap covering every run from August 18–23, 2026. This was the first deload week after the derecho, with downed trees and power lines still lining the trail and sidewalks. Four runs,…
This is my Indianapolis Monumental Marathon training week 5 recap covering every run from August 11–17, 2026. This was the week a derecho tore through the Chicago and northwest Indiana area with winds over 90 mph and multiple tornadoes, leaving…
This is my Indianapolis Monumental Marathon training week 4 recap covering every run from August 3–10, 2026. Marathon training week 4 brought 27 miles, a speed workout I was accidentally running too slow, a Saturday easy run with bad calf…
This is my Indianapolis Monumental Marathon training week 3 recap covering every run from July 27 – August 3, 2026. Week 3 was a deload week — 21.6 miles across four runs, 1k repeats that actually felt good, a Thursday…
This is my Indianapolis Monumental Marathon training week 2 recap covering every run from July 20–26, 2026. Marathon training week 2 brought hill sprints that turned into an accidental 6.4 mile bathroom hunt, a Thursday easy run with Scout, a…
