Happy Saturday! I’m usually absent from the blog during the weekend, but since I don’t have a long run planned for today for the first time in forever I thought I would post since I have all this free time on…
How do you know a run blogger ran a marathon? She’ll post about it every single day for a year and put a giant sticker on her car : ) I promise this is my last marathon related post for…
I realize yesterday’s recap was a bit … dark? And I do want to share that there were so many good things about finishing my first marathon! The volunteers and crowds in Portland were literally the best I have ever…
What I learned last weekend in Portland is that 26.2 miles is a long journey, but even on the toughest of days it’s one worth making. (I’m not stealing, I plan on purchasing this photo, I’m just not sure which package…
Back when I was about 10 years old I filled out a form I found in a magazine and sent it off with a few dollars to a pen pal company that promised to pair me up with a new…
My first marathon is now so close I can feel it. I fly out to Portland is just a few hours. To calm my pre-race anxiety I am just trying to follow this good advice: “Don’t get caught up in the…
HOLY COW marathon day is almost here! While we were at The Louvre I saw a statue of a tired looking guy and thought to myself, “he looks like he just ran a marathon.” Turns out it was the statue…
On Saturday I ran my last BIG run before the Portland Marathon. Twenty miles. Thirty-two kilometers. That’s three miles longer than any of my previous long runs, and while I was sore for a few hours afterwards, I gotta say…
With just about a month to go until the Portland Marathon I am starting to have a little PRE-RACE ANXIETY. The other night during a run I started wondering, “why did I sign up to run a marathon?” and “I could…
Last week was a down week for me and I took full advantage of it. My body was feeling the effects of being on the backend of marathon training, so I cut some of my short weekday runs extra short and…
On Saturday I did the unthinkable and got up at 4:15am to get ready for a MORNING long run. I am so not cut out to be an early riser. My pace was a good 15 seconds slower than normal…
On Saturday I tackled my longest “fast finish” run ever – 14 miles with 3 fast ones at the end. I started out on the treadmill and finished outdoors because it was crazy hot out. I ended up having a…
