Hi, this is Debbie Boyle's coach at Mojo for Running with podcast number 105, my grandma's marathon

race report. It's been just a few days since I got home from Duluth, Minnesota, where I ran

grandma's marathon last Saturday, along with a very large

contingent from my local Run Tampa Club. Grandma's is one of the most popular marathons in the

country. I plan to do several videos while I was there, but sadly, I never managed to even

won. I always feel like there'll be plenty of time when I get to a destination race, but it gets so

hectic between finding appropriate restaurants, figuring out logistics of how to get where,

when, going to pack a pickup, checking out the race expo, connecting with friends,

figuring out where to get good coffee, a must for me, and the required trip to

the grocery store.

There's just too much to do.

Honestly, I was going nonstop, but it was an amazing weekend that provided me with the whole

collection of new extremely valuable memories.

I'll try to do better with videos next time, which will be very soon. September 10th,

we're doing Big Cottonwood, the Big Cottonwood Marathon in Utah. That's really right around the corner

from a training standpoint. This is Recovery Week for me, and then I'll ever so gradually start

to build back up to a reasonable weekly and long-run mileage,

but then it'll be time to taper again pretty quickly.

I love tweaking training strategy and then evaluating the results.

So I'm looking forward to this next training cycle.

This race, Grandma's Marathon, was much tougher than any of us expected it to be because of the very hot conditions.

We took about 65 people from Tampa.

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