It’s race week! It’s race week! It’s been 17 long weeks but here I am, just a few days out from running the 41st Marine Corps Marathon. I’d like to thank all of you for following along with my training and […]
Since today is the final Friday Five hosted by the DC Trifecta, today I’m gonna tell you the five things I’m really looking forward to in regard to the Marine Corps Marathon weekend at the end of October. It just seems fitting […]
Last week was a good week of training. For the most part. As my mileage climbs, my confidence waxes and wanes. On the one hand, I recover extremely well from long or hard effort runs which is in stark contrast […]
By the time this post publishes, I’ll officially have 54 days until the Marine Corps Marathon. I’m equal parts excited and nervous. My nerves came to a head last week with the announcement of the new start time as well […]
There are two things I wish for more than anything for my next marathon. I want to train and run my race injury-free. I don’t want niggles, no pangs, no nothin’ during this training cycle. So far I’ve been lucky but […]
Boom! What a week of training. I made up for my lack of training during week 3, that’s for sure. I felt awesome for most of the week. Check it out: Marine Corps Marathon Training: Week 4 Tuesday — 6 […]
As predicted last week, week 3 of marathon training was kind of a bust. I tried to keep up with my workouts as best I could but if I’m being honest, I didn’t try that hard. Turns out juggling training, coaching, […]
Confession: marathon training is not going as planned. It’s not going not as planned, but it’s definitely not going as planned. Did you catch that? Last week was week of juggling because I was traveling on Thursday. Plus with being in a […]
Week 1 of marathon training is officially in the books. It was a wonky week plagued by illness (my daughter and myself) but I recuperated and came back strong. Marine Corps Marathon Training: Week 1 Tuesday — 4.1 miles Tuesday was […]
What a week, you guys. I just want it to be over. Thankfully it’s Thursday which means it’s almost Friday which means it’s almost the weekend. Plus I love Thursdays because that means I get to Think Out Loud. Ready? […]