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Apparently, today is National Running Day. I really have no idea what that means. Do I buy a card? Do people get me gifts because I’m a runner? Can I get some free running shoes somewhere? In any case, today I wasn’t planning to run. I really haven’t done much running since my most recent…
This weekend I had the awesome opportunity to fly down to Nashville for the first time. I’ve done some traveling lately, but all to cities I’ve been to before. I was excited for a lot of reasons, but mostly because I would be running my third half marathon, the St. Jude Country Music Rock and…
Today was an exciting day for me. I woke up and, knowing that my training schedule put me at 4 miles, checked the weather. The northeast has been pretty cruel to me, with sub-zero temperatures and icy paths, forcing me onto a treadmill for the first month of my training. I was absolutely done rushing…
People say it all the time, “I need a vacation from my vacation!” That’s exactly how I felt when I returned from what I’ve been calling my Mega Florida Trip. I wrote about the Walt Disney World Wine and Dine Half Marathon, so I’ll spare the details in this post, but I was pretty excited to…
PHEW. I’m only a few days into my mega-Florida trip and I’m already exhausted. It’s probably due to the lack of sleep I got from participating in Disney’s Wine and Dine half marathon – starting at 10pm on a cold rainy night. Of course, I was nervous for the race, but I was especially nervous because…
The day before my first half marathon was terrifying. Runners were invited to a pasta dinner at a nearby church after we picked up our race packets at the Expo, which was an awesome and delicious way to kick off the weekend. I was not expecting the entire second floor of the Niagara Convention Center to…
I found this on Pinterest just after I signed up for the Buffalo Half Marathon. I was so excited and motivated, ready for the challenge ahead of me. Now, nearly a month away from the race and 3 months into training, I’ve re-read this list and disagreed with nearly all of it. My disagreement comes…
I’m just about a month into my half marathon training, and I think I’m allowed to officially call myself a runner. And as a runner, I’ve learned a lot more about myself in my first month of training than I thought I would. I put $70 into a race very far into the future thinking…
My first long run of my training experience…4 miles, seemed pretty reasonable. I woke up early on Saturday with the intention of meeting a group of runners on a pond over a half hour away, which I was dreading, but I knew that I would be much more motivated to run with people around me….
This past weekend, I got the chance to catch up with a lot of old friends. Most of them are runners. Most have run half marathons in the past, and now that the snow is beginning to melt – or at least it’s supposed to – they’re all back to training for this year’s set…