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Lehigh Valley Marathon: Week 13 Recap

August 31, 2011 by Kristy 8 Comments

8/31/11
5 miles easy / 47:25 / 9:29 avg pace
*Done at the crack of dawn (5:15AM), thankfully with my neighbor.  If I were alone, I would have waited for some sunlight (no worries Mom and Dad).

Week 13 can be dubbed the “lazy” week.  I began my taper with respect to overall mileage but I still had a 22-miler to do.  I only planned to run 44 miles with 22 of them being a long run.  So I only ran 4 days and took almost as many rest days.  But it’s taper time, right?

MON:  rest
TUE:  7 speed
WED:  7 easy
THU:  rest
FRI:  22 awesome miles!
SAT:  8 tempo easy (had to fit this in pre-Irene and my legs were in no shape for tempo miles)
SUN:  rest (although I had fully intended to go to yoga but the studio was closed for the hurricane)

I have an unrelated question that I’d love feedback on:  when you read blogs, do you prefer quality over quantity?  Say a blogger were to only post 3 days per week but they were more high quality posts…would you prefer that over more “simple” posts every day?  Do you like when bloggers are on a schedule (i.e., post every Mon/Wed/Fri) or it doesn’t matter?  

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  1. Kara says

    August 31, 2011 at 6:45 am

    Obviously, I prefer a quality post over a “Well, I didn’t do anything interesting, but here I am writing about it”, but I think you get more readers if you post daily at about the same time. I like when people post before 7am, because then I can read their blog before my little monster awakens. 🙂

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  2. Alyssa says

    August 31, 2011 at 7:01 am

    Absolutely quality over quantity. I used to read a lot of food blogs, but I’ve almost completely stopped, because reading blogs that have a schedule to post three times a day gets super boring. They often have nothing to say! I really prefer bloggers who post when they actually have information to share. Personally, I refuse to be on a schedule for that reason – if I have three boring days where nothing noteworthy happens, then I most likely won’t be blogging then! Great job getting to the taper – it’s almost time!

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  3. Pink Runner says

    August 31, 2011 at 7:04 am

    I like a schedule ( but I feel pressured to keep mine!) and I would definitely prefer quality over quantity. Sometimes I get overwhelmed in my Google Reader and I can’t get through the quantity ones. Take it easy this week!

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  4. Kelly says

    August 31, 2011 at 8:05 am

    I love reading thoughtful blog posts, but really I think every blogger has a system that works for them! Sometimes I just don’t have the time or energy for an amazing, well thought out post and I think that’s ok 🙂

    Nice running!! Hooray taper time! And re: your last post, I feel the exact same way re: the want/have jobs.

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  5. thethinksicanthink says

    August 31, 2011 at 9:03 am

    Definitely quality stuff – I don’t like reading “ok I got up at 8 am and ate this for breakfast and it was really good”. However, in terms of length and timing – I don’t really care. Picture quality – don’t care, but that’s probably because I don’t have a camera (I use my phone). I don’t really have a rhyme or reason to my blog (how often I post, etc) so I don’t really mind what other people do with theirs!

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  6. Angie says

    August 31, 2011 at 10:02 am

    I think quality…but I also think ppl have different opinions on what “quality” is in a blog… I don’t care about timing all that much.

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  7. runningismagical says

    August 31, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    I prefer quality over quantity. I love when the post as a true purpose with cool/helpful information, or a funny story that they felt was worth sharing. And a schedule doesn’t matter…just as long as you don’t disappear for too long without warning!

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  8. Stephanie says

    August 31, 2011 at 4:18 pm

    i like when bloggers are on schedule. right now i post everyday because i was encouraged that that was the best to go for new bloggers in terms of keeping readers and getting new ones. i thought that was annoying and crazy but it really works. i have not had too much of a problem finding stuff to write about actually. hope this helps, sort of…

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