Alright, get ready because this is a long one! The night before the half marathon we were back in the room and in bed by 9:30pm – between traveling, being up early for the 5k and still being on east coast time we were all exhausted and I had to be up to meet Jenn … Continue reading
My husband, mom, sister and I landed in California on Friday afternoon. After quickly dropping our stuff off at the hotel we headed right over to the race expo to pick up our packets and check out the runDisney merchandise. We didn’t spend too much time in the expo since we were excited to head … Continue reading
RECAP (8/27-9/2) Monday – rest day Tuesday – 30 minutes elliptical and 30 minute MSD run Wednesday – rest day & massage! Thursday – 45 minute AB run (4 miles) Friday – FLY TO DISNEYLAND! Saturday – Cars Land 5k! Sunday – Disneyland Half Marathon! 2:05:22 – A NEW PR! Overall – Disneyland trip was AMAZING! … Continue reading
Every runner has bucket list races…so, in no particular order, here are mine (so far)! 1) New York City Marathon I entered the lottery this year and unfortunately did not get in, keeping my fingers crossed for 2013! **I am totally claustrophobic and hate crowded spaces so honestly this picture scares the crap out of … Continue reading
Since I’m at the beach for three weeks and have plenty of time on my hands I figured it would be a great opportunity to do some more running research! Over the past year since I started training for my first race I’ve really enjoyed all that I’ve learned about running, racing and training and … Continue reading
I can not believe it is July already! The year is half over and looking back at the goals I set for myself for 2012 I haven’t done the best job of keeping up with all of them. Fortunately though I think the best is yet to come for 2012 – some vacation time and … Continue reading
This past weekend my sister and I did our first mud run, the 2012 New England Warrior Dash. I knew it would be more fun to do the race with someone, so I convinced my sister (who is not a runner) that the 3 miles would be totally manageable since you got to take a break from … Continue reading
I know I’ve been totally MIA for the past couple of months (since the NHL playoff season started…) but I felt that it was important to write something today… It was one year ago today that I started running. I started running to fundraise in honor of my friend Kerry who was battling Leukemia (entire story … Continue reading
I honestly don’t know where to start with this book – I absolutely loved it! Author Christopher McDougall started with a simple question of trying to figure out why his foot hurt when he ran. Where it led him was on an incredible journey that turned into Born to Run – A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and … Continue reading
Can you believe it’s April already?!? Well, I figured since the point of my writing this blog is to document my journey to “GROW” and work towards some goals I set for myself it would be a good idea to give my “2012 Goals and Growth” list a 3 month check up! On New Year’s Day I … Continue reading
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