I did it, I signed up for the Dallas marathon in December. I’m running the 5K on 12/12 and the full on 12/13. I’m excited and nervous at the same time. I haven’t run long distance in a while. After my divorce in April 2019, I sold my house and rented a teeny tiny house, […]
Marathon Training
Upcoming races and training
Last week was the end of Camp Gladiator’s 4 week Total Transformation. My results weren’t exactly what I wanted but I learned about my nutritional needs to increase my performance and have been keeping up with my meals and goals. TT started on May 23rd and ended on June 17th. Now that this challenge is […]
Ultra Marathon 24 hours training…
There are 8 weeks left before my 24 hour endurance run. On Saturday Liz and I ran/walked 26 miles. Quite frankly I felt pretty good until about mile 18 and the blisters on my feet and the cramps in my calves became very uncomfortable. It was like nothing I’ve felt before. I’ve read on some […]
Marathon #2
November 10th 2013 was the date of my 2nd marathon. During my training I didn’t follow a plan and simply ran. I wrote out an extensive plan and followed it for a couple weeks but was feeling burnnout. Without having registered for the marathon, it was like I wasnt feeling that committed. I began talking […]
The joy of running
Last weekend I met up with my friend Melissa and we ran 15 miles. I met her at 5:45am in Arlington and we ran a nice and easy 15miles. I felt great. I would have never gotten up that early if I was heading out by myself. This round of training, I don’t feel pressured […]
Running in the heat…
Today I set out for a run and I wanted to run at least an hour. I woke up at 7am…errr…ok “Maybe I’ll go at 7:30.” right? WRONG! I stayed in bed…7:30, 7:45…ok 8am I got up and I thought I would be out the door by 8:15. Well that didn’t happen either. I actually […]
A month after the marathon
It’s been about a month since I posted on here. In fact since the Cow Town…so what is going on now you may ask? Maybe maybe not…but you wanna hear it, hear it go. Lol. Anyway I went for my first post Marathon run 3 days after. I ran 3 slow miles, I was pretty […]
Hot Chocolate 15K recap
Friday night I set everything out for race day. I pinned my bib on my shirt, filled my water bottle…etc. I knew we would have to get up early and be there by 7am, (even though the paper I got at the expo said be there by 6am). Well we got out the door by […]
20 miler!!!
Throughout this training, Tiffany and I have been gearing up for our 20 mile run. The last long run before we start tapering for the marathon on the 24th. I remember I would scroll forward on my marathon training app at the beginning of this program and just stare at the upcoming 20 miles which […]
Midweek long run
After running a PR on Saturday’s half marathon, I was sore for a few days. I have 20 miles on Saturday and wanted to take it easy this week. Monday was a rest day (which I would have bumped up Thursday’s 5 miler because of my work schedule). Tuesday I had 5 scheduled and did […]