David Taylor Gonzales
running and other things
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I mentioned in my last blog that I wanted to capture and share what I eat in a day. There’s a couple reasons for writing this. The first reason is to show y’all what I am doing for fuel during before, during, and after training. The second reason is because nutrition is an area of…
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9/25 It’s my brother Zach’s birthday. He’s 27 years old. He got engaged and graduated college a few months back. His future wife, Katie, is really an incredible woman. It’s been amazing to see him grow and change in the years since Covid. We fought a lot when we were young and it led to…
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9/18 Joy woke up in the middle of the night three times. Lane and I didn’t get any sleep between 1 and 3:30 AM. I’m glad today is a rest day. I do not plan on doing anything except going to work, coming home, playing with the kids, and going to sleep. This is my…
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9/11 Today is the usual rest and active recovery. My training readiness is 89 as of this morning at 10 AM so I’m going to be very fresh for the weekend. I am running my distance PR on Saturday so I’m going to fully rest and stay out of the garage today. I went on…
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9/4 I completed a 5.5 miles easy today. The weather is cooling down. The sun rises noticeably later into the morning now. The sky was dark and full of purple clouds. I was struck by how quiet the neighborhood was. It felt as if the whole city decided to sleep in because of the dark.…
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8/28 It’s Thursday. It’s rest day. I feel really good going into this weekend. Often on my rest days I find myself “cheating” in small ways: doing pull-ups in the garage, jogging lightly during my lunch break walk, etc. Today I really took it easy. In fact, it was a borderline lazy day. I took…
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8/21 I rested today. It’s been a slow ramp up coming back from sickness. To reward myself for actually taking a day off, I’m gonna do a threshold workout tomorrow after work. I haven’t done enough high aerobic work recently and I want to train in a higher zone. My hope is that doing so…
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8/14 Today was a much needed off day. Lane and I bought a whiteboard which we’re using as a training/family/meal calendar. We decided we need to share an off day so we can spend some time together. Thursdays are already scheduled for House Church every week so it was somewhat a no brainer. When we…
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8/8 I ran 4 miles with Travis this morning. It was my first early morning workout in awhile. My body has been craving a higher intensity aerobic workout for the last week so we did some interval training. 12 min warm up, then 5 x 2 minutes @ threshold pace with 2-3 minutes of recovery…
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8/1 Friday 5 mile run at marathon pace. This was a perfect weather day. Couldn’t believe how good I felt. This was my second run in a row with no chest pain which was encouraging. This is my last ramp up mileage week before a rest week (32 miles this week, 27 miles next week).…
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