Running | Varun Mangalick

I ran my first race late in my senior year as a way to try something different with my sudden influx of free time. It was a half marathon, I did not train adequately, and it did not go well, but I still finished. It took a few years for me to do another, but that one went better, and I was a bit more encouraged to keep going.

Running: Marathon Training Weeks 9-Race

Week 9 Planned runs: 6 + 8 + 7 + 18 = 39 Completed runs: 6.06 + 8.01 + 7.21 + 18.17 = 39.45 Last week’s 16 mile run may have felt amazing, but I was quite tired coming into this week. I went quite fast on my first short run of the week (8:23/mile), but slowed down considerably on the next two as I started to feel some minor knee pain....

Running: All My Races

Lake Minnetonka Half Marathon Date: 2015-05-03 Pace: 2:22:40 - 10:54/mile When I reached spring of senior year, I found myself with a lot of free time. I had already gotten into college, and in doing so, most of my interests had been strictly academic. I liked the idea of running, so I decided it’d be a fun challenge to try running a half marathon. I had read the book Born to Run and gotten excited about the idea of barefoot running, so my training began in Vibram Five Fingers shoes....

Running: Marathon Training Weeks 1-8

Intro This year, my plan was to not necessarily sign up for any races and just to focus on building consistency. Last year, I ran around 340 miles total in the year, so my goal for this year was 400 with a stretch goal of 500 miles. This got off track pretty quickly when I hurt my ankle while bouldering around the end of January. While my ankle started to feel better within a couple weeks, when I started running again, I started to have shin splints....