I have this hate – love relationship with speed workouts. Its amazing on how I start out by completely hating it. But about 5 minutes later I’m grinning from ear to ear. 1 – 8:18 (Holy cr**) 2 – 8:12 (No Wonder I was on the road to fizzling) 3 – 9:13 (So ready to be done) 4 – 8:58 (I hate a certain someone) 5 – 8:58 6 – 8:56 (I offered to buy a drink, 2 drinks, if…
Going out for a first run by myself after being back was …. weird. Mind: All right Legs, lets go run for a bit now. Its 16 weeks to Chicago and the start of the real training period.Legs: Run? Oh Yes, Sure! Mind: Garmin on, body glide on. Lets start! Giddy up!Legs: Er …. I AM moving along. Mind: You are walking, not running.Legs: WHAT D’YA MEAN WALKING? I AM PUTTING ONE FEET IN FRONT OF ANOTHER AS FAST AS…
That race pace for both the full and half marathon scares me! So does the 10k one actually. I’m supposed to run 26.2 miles at a pace that I’ve never even run half the distance at! I’m running my long runs too fast (I knew that!). So no matter how much I think I need that ‘push’ and no matter how much other people push me into it, stick with the slower group because going out at 11:30 for the…
Article at Competitor.com This was a great article in Competitor ‘Out there: Running is Running’ that resonated with me so much. And my favorite piece in it – “Most importantly, I never would have had the drive to keep going had my friends not celebrated my victories along the way. If I ran a 5K, my friends who have finished Ironman triathlons could have laughed and said, “Aww, 3.1 miles. That’s so cute.” But they didn’t. Instead, I got high fives…
I ran for the first time ever on Christmas Eve 2009, the after day I signed up for my first race, the ING Georgia Half Marathon. My run was full of fear and worry, fear that in 3 months, the 13.1 miles would be far far beyond what this couch potato had imagined. I would run when my husband pushed me to. I would roll my eyes and mutter under my breath at him, but if running was the only…
When Lorraine at Run Wifey sent an invitation for the chance to meet Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea, the authors of Run Like a Mother and Train Like a Mother (Another Mother Runner), I was super thrilled ! I love their books and their articles on Runners World. Needless to say, it was a great event with a lot a giveaways (of course, I didn’t win any) and book reading from Train Like a Mother, the new book (which I’m kind of…
Instead of running the Georgia Half Marathon today, I volunteered at the Get Fit Atlanta Water Stop at Mile 10 of the Marathon Route. I yelled, screaming, chanted, whooped, yelled some more, screamed some more, … until the kidlets were sort of embarrassed by Mommy’s maniac ways. While not the same as running, the rush I had came pretty close to it. I may have missed my calling as a running spectator and maniac cheerer! Congratulations to the 18,000+ amazing full and…