It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Actually, it was neither my best nor my worst finish time, but I couldn’t resist the quote. In fact, this is the tale of six cities and the fun time I had running through them: The Worst of Times This means we’re talking […]
She Rocks the Trails 25K–Race Report!
I’ve been running for several years now, and I think I’ve pretty much got the hang of it. I’ve run quite a few races and had such a great racing season in 2011 that I PR’d pretty much everything I ran. I guess you could say I was getting a little confident in my abilities, […]
Getting Over a DNF
I’m going to get back to my Evolution of a Training Plan series, but since I brought up the topic of my DNF, I felt like this was an important post to write. I wasn’t blogging yet in October 2009, so I haven’t really told this story before, except in bits and pieces. I found […]
Evolution of a Training Plan, Part Two
When I wrote Part One of this bloggy mini-series, I really only envisioned it having two parts – the discussion of my very first training plan and then a dissection of my current one, sort of a “Then vs. Now” thing. But as I cringed with embarrassment reminisced about my naïveté in those early years, […]
I’m Not That Tough
Sadly, it seems that I’ve gone from bad to worse, so I am raising the white flag and surrendering. Yesterday, I gathered up the broken shards of my confidence and set off for another WTH course preview training session. This time I was all set to tackle the bike course: Race day outfit? Check. Hill […]
F R E A K I N G O U T
Don’t mind me if this post ends up making very little sense, because I have entered that part of race training known as the Complete and Utter Freak Out Stage. No joke. I can’t string together a coherent sentence in real life, so don’t expect me to have anything but crazy to say here on […]
Consistently Inconsistent
In the “real world,” I work as a fitness trainer at a health club, which I’ve come to conclude is remarkably similar to my former job as a preschool teacher. I spend a good portion of my work day educating members on what I think of as pretty basic facts about nutrition and exercise, and […]
LB Marathon = Epic FAIL
I’m going to spoil the ending for you right here in the first sentence: the Long Beach Marathon ended up being a PW for me by about twenty minutes. I had a flat-out awful run (that was more like a really, really long walk). But I managed to learn some lessons and meet some fabulous […]
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 […]
The 18-Miler That Wasn’t
I had some real dread going into Sunday’s long run. For me, 18 miles is where the rubber meets the road, where the boys are separated from the men and where I have traditionally fallen apart in training. (Wow, psych myself out much??) I’ve trained for three marathons and encountered more than my fair share […]
