Race day dawned this morning, pretty much like every morning, with me slamming down coffee and hollering at the kids to eat breakfast and brush their teeth. I wasn’t really nervous about this race, but I sure didn’t know what to expect. The Race Director’s instructions were a little vague: do some sort of distance […]
Random Ramblings
Things have gotten crazy around here. Taper-crazy, Ironman training-crazy, school-crazy, birthday-crazy, scheduling-crazy, you-name-it-crazy. Here’s what my life looks like right now: The Hubs’ work schedule changed this month to a late-night shift, which is ridiculously inconvenient for all of us. This shift means I can’t do any training in the early morning, because he’s gone, […]
Weeding
It’s been a rough weekend and I’ve had a lot of negative thoughts weighing me down. I set out Friday morning for a long run (my last before the marathon in two short weeks) and it was a big fat FAIL. Baseball-bat-to-the-knee pain stopped me at mile 6. This morning I went for a bike […]
Six Things Sunday
Ahhh, Happy Labor Day Weekend! In the spirit of celebrating the working folks with a day of laziness, here is my bullet-point post for the day: Thank goodness Recovery Week is over! As mentioned previously, I am not a huge fan of Recover Week. I find it sort of boring and sometimes even harder than […]
Marathon Mania, Part 1: Crunching the Numbers
I’m having a little bit of the post-triathlon season glums, especially since this is also a Recovery Week on my marathon training plan. I’m not a big fan of Recovery Week, to be honest. I understand that it’s necessary, but I don’t like feeling like I’m losing forward momentum. A week full of “Easy Run”s […]
Hillacious, Bodacious and Review-acious?
Today’s run was a 14-miler on the gorgeous nearby bike trail. I was both excited – because I enjoy long runs – and nervous – because this route is HILLY, and I haven’t run 14 miles since early spring. I have done any very much hill work recently, so I had a feeling today was […]
3:30 am Thursday
It’s true, I was up and running in the 3 o’clock hour again this morning. My training plan is so completely jacked right now from all the unforeseen circumstances – my hours at work, The Hubs’ training and racing plans, unscheduled travel, etc. – that I’m not even sure if today was supposed to be […]
Connected
First of all, THANK YOU to everyone who stopped by yesterday and left wonderful comments. Your kind words and thoughts were more helpful than I can tell you! By yesterday evening it was clear (as many of you pointed out) that I really needed to go for a run. And not just any old run, […]
A Running Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, almost four years ago, there was a chubby mom who knew she needed to get fit (before the rest of her jeans didn’t fit). So she went for a walk on a nature trail near her house. It was a one-mile round trip and she had been walking it every morning […]
Monday Thoughts
Today is the first day of Marathon Training!!! Oh, how I love starting a new training schedule. I spent a few hours yesterday tweaking all the ins and outs of this one because here’s what’s going on in my life between now and Marathon Day: My next sprint-distance TRI, which is only a month away Big […]
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