The Half Marathon Training Taper Begins

ByTim Nolte July 3, 2018

I’m now on the taper for the #HessLakeRun half marathon in a week and a half. This morning was supposed to be just an easy run but as is my m.o. I pushed it a bit beyond an easy run. It was surprisingly a fairly cool morning. Enjoyed listening to worship music and lifting up friends, co-workers, and family in prayer. I also couldn’t have a run without thinking about and praying for those in #SierraLeone that I met while there. #HWI #GRMarathon #Run4Water

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Featured / Running
First Warm Spring Run Of 2018
ByTim Nolte April 12, 2018
Wanted to avoid the rain today so decided to make it an evening run. Great weather tonight. First run with no stocking hat and no third top layer. #hwi #training #HessLakeRace #Run4Water
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Final Training Run Before The Groundhog Marathon
ByTim Nolte January 30, 2020January 30, 2020
Things were a bit off, and out of the normal, this morning. It actually started last night as I discovered that the #Endomondo service was apparently down, which meant I couldn’t load my training plan to see what my last run would be. Then this morning the Endomondo app on my phone wouldn’t even load right. Since my smartwatch came with #Strava built-in, and I’ve been syncing data there, I decided to give it a go on my run. It worked out well enough, except the watch and phone apps don’t talk to each other in real-time which meant I had no audio coaching and no real-time stats, including heart rate, pace, etc. Looking at my final stats I knocked the run out with flying…
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Featured / Running
Back At It After A Long Weekend Break
ByTim Nolte June 26, 2018June 26, 2018
It was a little bit of a struggle starting out this morning after having a long weekend of no running. Felt better by the end of my run. Through one of the worship songs this morning I was prompted to pray specifically for the father’s of Sierra Leone. There are many women and children that have been abandoned because of cultural stigmatism. My prayer this morning was for a revival in the hearts of the husbands and fathers of Sierra Leone. #HWI #HessLakeRun #GRMarathon #Run4Water #SierraLeone Hudsonville, Michigan, United States of America
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Knocking Out Another 5K With The Hope Water Team
ByTim Nolte June 8, 2019June 23, 2019 Updated onJune 23, 2019
It was a great day for a 5K with the #HWI Team this morning. Great weather, great community, and and awesome and inspiring #WhyIRun from Jason Crottie. #Run4Water #GRMarathon 42° 55.311 N -85° 46.075 W
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Health / Running
Warm Weather Means Running Outside
ByTim Nolte January 19, 2017January 19, 2017
Had a great morning run OUTSIDE today. Felt great to be outside again. I can tell that my body is allowed to more naturally be in control of the pace I’m running at any given point. I do think the treadmill running has helped my outside run today. Got a personal best on 3miles, woot! [endomondowp type=’workout’ workout_id=’860773514′]
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Back In The High [Intensity] Life Again
ByTim Nolte March 21, 2019March 21, 2019
After a brief hiatus on Tuesday, no thanks to a cold and a bad nights rest, I was back out for my early morning run. I really had my butt kicked with a high intensity interval run. I think my only slight advantage was have a previous week of out of the park fast runs. I could sure tell that I had missed a day of running though. Regardless of how tough it might have been it still felt good to be back out running. On Tuesday when I didn’t get out for my run the whole day seemed off. I’m not sure how I’m going to get my Saturday run in with being out of town in a trip to Chicago. We’ll see. #HWI…
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