Elizabeth

Marathon
Written By Mona Angéline

Elizabeth's knee pain is in the past! So what's next? A marathon! Elizabeth is already a speedy gazelle 💨 and would like to qualify for Boston somewhere down the road. Importantly, she'd like to do it without her knee acting back up. After being cleared by PT, we're in good shape to start training, and we'll pay specific attention to the things that could have brought this on.

I'm still working on Elizabeth's injury analysis, but two things have stood out so far: 1) doing almost all miles moderately fast and almost nothing easy; and 2) doing back-to-back long runs regularly. I think creating an 80/20 balance of easy to hard efforts while avoiding two hard days in a row will do some good things here!

This introduction of recovery will also allow us to do some real speedwork, which isn't an ingredient so far in Elizabeth's training. I see some great potential for a Boston Qualifier in the future here!

Way to go Elizabeth! The team has your back!! You've got this!! 🥰

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

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