How Do You Finish a Marathon You Probably Shouldn't Have Started?
What would you do if you knew you were probably going to fail? During this training cycle, I often thought about a quote and my new...
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Anna Weber
- Mar 11, 2022
- 5 min
Plot Twist! Pivot! Reverse!
Well, 2022 didn’t start out the way I had planned. My grand plan for the year was to run the Eugene Marathon, get a marathon starting...
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Anna Weber
- Jan 2, 2022
- 5 min
Going Big or Going Home 3.0: sub-2:37 project
Hi, remember me? I used to write a lot about trying to qualify for the Olympic Trials. Then I qualified and I kind of ran out of...
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Anna Weber
- Jul 10, 2021
- 7 min
Cross-Training Diaries: Injured During my Favorite Month of the Year
Something that I've prided myself on is the fact that I'm not an injury-prone athlete. I've had 2 bone injuries since 1999 (tibial...
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Anna Weber
- Apr 4, 2021
- 9 min
Slaying the Dragon and Finding a Starting Point
Yesterday I ran, and finished, the Carmel Marathon in 2:52:05 for 4th place. If you are close to me, and you asked me how I was feeling...
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Anna Weber
- Mar 22, 2021
- 9 min
I'm Running a Marathon in 12 Days: the Greatest Training Cycle I Didn't Talk About
If you had asked me a year ago what the future of my marathon career might hold, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you. Yes, I enjoy...
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Anna Weber
- Nov 16, 2020
- 8 min
Pursuit of Over-Performance: Reasons to Race When You Aren't Fit
I have a confession. One of my many pet peeves is when a social media post starts, "It wasn't a PR, but....." Maybe it's me being jaded...
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Anna Weber
- Oct 20, 2020
- 11 min
For a Few Days the World Felt Normal: Cloudsplitter 100 (25K)
I haven't written a blog post since May 19th. In truth, I haven't had any motivation, but also I'm not sure I've had anything to really...
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Anna Weber
- May 19, 2020
- 9 min
Running in the Time of Corona: (kind of) Injured and (kind of) Thriving
I am grateful for all the obstacles, setbacks, injuries, and disappointments I have encountered in my life; particularly those from the...
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Anna Weber
- Apr 21, 2020
- 7 min
That Time I Went to AZ to Train for the Trials and Trained for a Pandemic Instead
One recent morning I was sitting with my pups, drinking coffee, writing in my journal about nothing and everything, and it hit me: when...
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Anna Weber
- Mar 23, 2020
- 7 min
I Didn't Exercise for 22 Days. Here's What Did (and Didn't) Happen
If you are looking for a post about how my life isn't complete without running and how I was lost for 3 weeks without it - you will...
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Anna Weber
- Mar 1, 2020
- 10 min
That Was a Wild Ride
If you have ever wondered why I have race/training cycle recaps up so quickly, it’s because the easiest way for me to process my emotions...
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Anna Weber
- Aug 21, 2019
- 10 min
I Don't Own a Garmin: My Quest to be the Patron Saint of Data-Free Runners
Roughly once a month one of my athletes asks for help programming a workout into a Garmin. I am useless in these requests. I always...
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Anna Weber
- Aug 16, 2019
- 6 min
When Life Gives you Lemons, Plan an Altitude Trip
It's crazy that my last blog post was 3 months ago and SO MUCH has changed, yet SO MUCH has stayed the same. Quick recap: My last blog...
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Anna Weber
- May 17, 2019
- 8 min
What if I Never Run a PR Again? and other scary stories to tell in the dark
Shortly after I had completed my first marathon in 2:50:01, a runner friend of mine said, "just imagine what you could do if running was...
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Anna Weber
- May 12, 2019
- 10 min
20 Years of Running and Still So Much to Learn
TLDR; I DNF'd a race this weekend that in retrospect probably should have been a DNS. This Spring season of racing and training has...
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Anna Weber
- Nov 29, 2018
- 12 min
More than Meets the Eye
TLDR; I qualified for the Olympic Trials on Sunday, running 2:40:11 for 2nd place in the Philadelphia marathon. If you want the longer...
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Anna Weber
- May 17, 2018
- 6 min
Cultivating Positivity
If you have talked to me in the past 10 days, you know I can’t stop talking about Deena Kastor’s book. The truth is that it came to me at...
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Anna Weber
- May 2, 2017
- 7 min
USATF Half Marathon Championships: Incremental Gains
On Saturday I raced the US Half Marathon Championships, held in conjunction with the Cap City Half Marathon in Columbus, Ohio. It seems...
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Anna Weber
- Jan 2, 2017
- 5 min
Goodbye, 2016
Truthfully, I can’t believe that I have waited until the final few hours of 2016 to write this post. After all, I’m a highly reflective...
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