Nope, we didn’t buy a new house. I’m just moving my blog to a new home. While I’m still running and still sweatier than the average human being, sweaty runner girl isn’t working for me anymore. I started blogging to talk about running because running was literally my lifeline for a long time. As I’ve slowly begun…
The Hard Way
This post is going to be a lot about God. Fair warning. That’ll probably come as a surprise to those of you who haven’t talked to me in a while. It definitely surprises the heck out of me. I haven’t always seen eye to eye with the man upstairs. My conception of Him – or…
Finding the Joy
My training cycle for Boston was hard. I wrote that sentence and then just stared at it for a while. It was hard in so many different ways, it’s hard to explain how hard it was. That was a lot of hards in one sentence. Basically what I’m saying is… it was HARD. And yes,…
Dealing with Disappointment: Rock N Roll DC Half Marathon
I’ve been thinking a lot about this race. About what went wrong and what I could’ve done differently. Unfortunately, I haven’t come up with anything. I still feel like I had a solid race plan that recent races and training run times lead me to believe I could maintain. My goal going into this race…
When it clicks
Monday was 8 weeks to Boston. 8 WEEKS! A few people have asked me lately if I’m excited, honestly, not yet. I’ve been signed up for the Shamrock marathon 3 times and have never finished it. Once, I found out the Friday before the Sunday race that I had a stress fracture. So, I don’t…
Reset and Refresh
Even though I don’t post often, when I eventually do, I usually mention either 1. my need to be patient with myself or 2. my lack of confidence. The last couple of weeks were very VERY hard mentally for me. I was frustrated that I couldn’t hit my training paces and sure that I was…
Suck it up, Buttercup
Last week was tough. It made me really wonder if I have a faster marathon in me. It made me wonder if I’m actually capable of doing it. It made me wonder if I even want to do it. It made me wonder why I’m running another marathon, why I run marathons at all, and…
Running for a Reason
I’ve been wanting to check out a particular running group for a while now but could never seem to get my schedule to sync up with them… until this weekend. The group is Wear Blue: Run to Remember. The head of the local chapter came into the running store one day and told us about…
First World Problems
I’m happy to report that yesterday’s workout went well. It was maybe a little tougher than I thought it would be, but mostly just comfortably difficult. Except the last 2 minutes, those were just plain difficult. I did have one little hiccup in the middle of the workout. I run on the same treadmill every…
The Ordinary
I’m in the ordinary time right now as far as training goes. Specific training for Boston hasn’t started, my runs are about base building and getting fit so that I’m ready once the hard workouts start. I actually like this point of training. It’s like the calm before the storm. I can just run and…
Blue and Gray half marathon: Or how not to execute a race plan
I’ll just start with the results. I went 1:34:08 was 7th female and 1st in my age group. Okay, now that’s out of the way, I’ll go ahead and say that I’m not happy with this race. Kind of like the 5k I ran in October that I knew I didn’t race to my potential,…
My Taratory 