With less than three months to go until the Allstate Fort Lauderdale Half Marathon I’m starting to get a little nervous. I know I still have plenty of training time left, but I’m a pretty anxious person when it comes…
The Allstate Fort Lauderdale Half Marathon is now officially less than three months away! Today I tackled a 5.5 mile run and felt great. I hit even splits and was in such a nice flow throughout the whole run. It…
I’ve been keeping some exciting news to myself for the past week: I’m officially running the Allstate Fort Lauderdale Half Marathon on November 10th! This will be my first half marathon and it goes right through my neighborhood and then…
For the last couple of days I’ve been dealing with a sore and inflamed right knee. I iced it a couple times because the cold feels really good. I also purchased an Instant Cold Wrap at CVS and can confirm…
Today’s run for me was one of those runs where you just want it to end. Now. Half a mile in all I could think is “I really don’t want to be doing this. I just want to get back…
This morning I pushed myself out of bed at 5:30am and hit the road early for a four mile run. As I predicted after Thursday’s run, I completed the four miles with no problem using 3 minute run/30 second walk…
It’s been almost a full month since I started working with my running coach and I feel like I’ve already benefited so much! When I first started working with my coach I was doing run/walk intervals of 2 minutes run/1…
On Tuesday at the strike of noon I signed up to run the Disney Princess Half Marathon 2014! I have been dreaming about running the Princess Half since before I ran my first 5K and can hardly believe I’m finally…
Ah, loving this long weekend! So far it’s consisted of shopping, running, the beach and an Arrested Development marathon. Does it get any better? View from Lulu’s Bait Shack on Fort Lauderdale Beach where we had lunch on Sat. Actually, there…
Last Saturday my weekend long run was supposed to be 7 miles per my half marathon training schedule, but I only made it 5.5 miles. I attributed this failure to: Not getting out early enough to beat the sweltering heat…
This morning I was supposed to complete Half Marathon Training Week 7 and tell you all about how I am now more than halfway to my goal. That’s not going to happen because I only ran 5.5 miles this morning…
On Friday morning my stepfather passed away somewhat unexpectedly. He was in the hospital because he had surgery the previous Friday, but everything had gone well and he was supposed to be coming home this weekend. I dedicated my long…
