5k at the U tomorrow morning!
Legs are still a little tired from Wednesday’s 14.5 mile tempo/marathon pace run (well, let’s clarify, only 10 of it was at marathon pace or below), but what the heck, let’s see what they can do!
Something has changed. Despite the fact that I am incredibly pregnant (read: huge), I’ve been more motivated than any other time during my pregnancy – heck, even before I became pregnant! Perhaps it’s the fact that I can see “the end”, so the running goals I have actually seem tangible. Those goals? They’re huge. Impossible,…
Not much exciting happening around here, which is why I haven’t been writing much. The last couple of weeks have just been base mileage with some fartlek work thrown in. It’s actually been great. I love “just running”, and it’s so nice not to have the pressure of hard workouts! For whatever reason, fartleks are…
As y’all are probably aware, I am bi-polar. I still dislike saying that. I wonder if I’ll ever truly become comfortable with it. Who knows. Anyway, y’all are also probably aware that symptoms didn’t show up until after Greta was born. I probably had symptoms prior to that, but it’s hard to discern what is…
A great miler back in the 80’s had a great quote in an interview that has applications to many areas of life and sport. I’m re-quoting via Elite Marathoning’s FB status update this weekend: [The Miler] said “going into every race I resigned myself to the fact that the next 4 minutes were going to…
So Nate and I made it out to Sacramento for CIM, but I wanted to give you a snapshot of the craziness before we left Thursday evening: I originally planned to go for a 5 mile run and see Jim, my chiropractor, over my lunch hour. As it drew close to 11, though, I knew…
Before I write anything about my adventures, day to day happenings, training, and complain about the weather, I feel the need to address the Boston Marathon shooting incident. Almost a week later, I still can’t comprehend why this happened or who would do such a thing. I’ve cried several times, especially after hearing about the…