In light of Cowtown’s races being canceled last week, I promised myself to run my own 50K in hopes that Cowtown would honor it. The 5K and 10K had also been canceled on race weekend and the runners for those races were offered a virtual event to compensate them. To my delight, I received an […]
Happy Miles
First Trail Race, The Grasslands.
On March 22nd I set out to run a half marathon on the trails in Texas. It was my first trail race so I decided to do “just the half.” There was a Full Marathon and a 50 mile ultra at this event. Not only was I running, but my marathon running partner, Liz (not […]
505.87 miles run so far this year…
The marathon is November 10th and I have not had the structured training or the long runs as I planned. I’m still going to run it and I feel confident. In fact I feel better about this marathon than CowTown. By the time the marathon came in February, I was getting burnt out and feeling […]
Hiking and Running in the North West
We flew into Portland, OR on Saturday August 10th and since we had our plane tickets, I was already planning on running and hiking. I waited with great anticipation and as I was packing my bags on Friday afternoon, I began with my running/hiking clothes. I packed my tech shirts, running shorts, some running tights, […]
Wounded Warrior 2013 recap
The much anticipated Wounded Warrior half marathon was Sunday June 9th. I had made arrangements to stay with my friend Melissa and the rest of her strider crew from Waco at the Marriot in Dallas, the host hotel for the race. It was the best thing I had ever done in my history of race […]
Beach to Bay recap and long run
May 17 we headed down to Corpus Christie and met up with our friends. That trip was so awesome for Erik and I. It was our first away trip since the boys were born, 11 years. I felt so excited and happy the entire time. The morning of the race we picked up Melissa from […]
Recent runs
I’m two weeks shy of finishing Insanity and on day 87 of my 116 day burpee challenge. I’ve been running at least 2 times a week and I have truly enjoyed it. I run in Mansfield’s James McKnight park and it is so quiet and nice there. It’s a short trail about 1.9 miles one […]
More races, More Running, New Goals
Right now I’m focusing on completing my 60 day Insanity bootcamp. Today was the first day of month 2, 4 weeks left. I still run and I feel good when I do. On Saturday I went out to Town Park with the boys and their bikes. We completed 6 miles at an avg pace of […]
The Cow Town Marathon 2013
The night before the marathon all I could do was think of what I needed for the morning. Race outfit and bib number pinned and ready, water bottles filled-1 part gatorade, 1 part water, showered, and time to sleep. Um…yeah right, I started texting, face booking, and playing wwf. Ok ok…I decided to just close […]
Taper week
I can’t believe it’s here! The Cow Town is on Sunday, 5 more days! Today is a 3 mile run. Short nice and easy. How tempting to just dash out there and run as fast as I can. BUT NOOO!!!! I have to take it easy. My plan is to run for 30 minutes. 30 […]