It’s only been a few days since the marathon, but I’m already thinking about my next races. I’m the kind of person who needs goals to focus my fitness. Jill and I are doing the Island Girl Half Marathon Relay, but beyond that, I’m not sure. I had planned on doing Midsummers’ again, but learned [...]

So, it’s been a day since I completed my first marathon. WHAT?! Warning: this post is going to be VERY LONG.   Pre-race: With my race starting at 8am and Jill and Kendal’s starting at 8:45, we all got up at 5:30. Coffee, bread from the farmer’s market courtesy of Kendal, almond butter and bananas [...]

  4:38:35. Recap to come tomorrow. I need to get photos from my mom.      

  Let’s do this.    

While the original plan was to rest Friday and Saturday, my back was creaking and Jill was up for some yoga. (Although, Jill is always up for yoga!) I didn’t want to do anything too hard or too hot (I’m tapering, after all) and after a quick internet search, it was decided: we’d go to [...]

  I had grand plans on Wednesday to run before work. I set my alarm for 6am. I woke up to a thunderstorm. So I didn’t run. I went back to sleep. Our flight was at 7pm so I headed to the airport right after work. We arrived in Halifax around 11pm and headed straight [...]

I went for my easy 6k tonight, even though I really, really didn’t want to. I was battling stomach pains all day and on my run all my little aches and pains flared up: my left knee, my left hip, both my achilles. It was weird and worrisome and frustrating. But the marathon is only [...]

Here we are. In less than a week, I’ll run my marathon. I am definitely freaking out. Last week was okay, training wise. I missed a run and only did yoga once. But that’s what a taper is for, right? On Monday, I went to yoga at lunch. I didn’t have any meetings and wanted [...]

Jill came over this morning and we decided to run our final long run before our respective races together. The run started out well, it was cool, but sunny — a great day for running. Around 3k in, that changed. It began to hail. And so that’s how this entire run went. It would hail [...]

You guys, where did the almost summer weather go? It’s been gray and cold and windy all weekend and it’s no fun! Because this week has been filled with a lot of tapering and not a lot of running, I decided to run for at least 40 minutes at a fast-but-not-too-fast pace. I didn’t map [...]