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, […]
Modesto Marathon Race Report
**WARNING!** If you are squeamish reading about bodily functions, you are going to want to skip this post! Or, at the very least, scroll down to the very end where I cross the finish line with a smile on my face. Your choice. But don’t say you haven’t been warned. I’m gonna gloss over my […]
It’s Complicated…
Once upon a time, running and I had an easy relationship. I woke up in the morning, threw on a pair of cotton sweatpants, laced up my $20 Champion shoes from Payless ShoeSource and hit the road. Sometimes I could even run for two whole miles! We were so happy together. I wanted to run […]
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, […]
