David Taylor Gonzales
running and other things
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The last 6 months has brought a lot of health challenges for our family. My wife has had mastitis 5 or 6 times since our son was born. He’s been growing and mostly healthy which we are incredibly grateful for, but adjusting to two children has taken a lot out of my wife. I see…
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My next race is April 11th. Rock the Parkway. Kansas City, Missouri. I am really looking forward to this one. In April 2024, Rock the Parkway was only my second race ever (my first race being the Lakeway Turkey Trot in November 2023, a race I did not train for). It was my first race…
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What’s the difference? I love to run. As I approach year three of this journey, I look back at what running meant to me when I started: weight loss, a proving ground where I could test my own toughness, a way to reconnect with my physical self. Now, as a father of 2 (my first…
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Last Friday was Quit Day, the unofficial mark of the most common day for people to quit on their new goals for the year. If you’re reading this, I hope you haven’t given up yet. If you have, I hope my little summary of my goals inspires you to reconsider. I am posting my goals…
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What now? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself quite a bit lately now that I’m in between training cycles. With the marathon behind me and looking forward to some faster races in the spring/summer, I’m having some trouble coming up with an answer. I shared already how bulking provided a new training stimulus and…
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As I said in previous blogs, I decided to spend the weeks/months after marathon training bulking. My goal was to build as much muscle as possible while gaining as little fat as possible simultaneously. This was not going to be a “dirty” bulk, a term I learned recently which basically sounds like eating junk food…
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11/6 During the long days of training, especially in he month of October as the race got closer, I found myself daydreaming about my goals this late fall and winter. The first thing I’m excited about is lowering my weekly mileage back to 10-15 miles per week. This is the biggest one because as much…
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I wanted to dedicate a blog specifically to a full mile by mile breakdown to provide some context and talk about some of the lessons I learned throughout the training process. I’m writing today to give a full breakdown of the race. My brain has been scrambled in the couple of weeks since I ran,…
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26.22 miles. 4 hours 11 minutes 22 seconds. 6 Honey Stinger gels. 4 swigs of Powerade. 1,094.77 miles run in training. 165 hours 50 minutes 19 seconds in total. 93.75% of scheduled workouts completed. 23 speed training sessions. Longest distance run in training: 19.9 miles (1.8 miles of this during a game of ultimate frisbee)…
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10/26 The knee is still stiff but getting better. I’ve noticed that if I’m sitting with the knee bent more than 90 degrees, it’s really hard to stretch it back out so I’m trying to keep the leg straight as much as possible. I am going to run 2 miles after church this afternoon to…
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