Monday was “Marathon Monday” with Boston Marathon 2015 and thanks to the world of the interwebz, people in office cubicles in places like Atlanta were able to watch the live streaming of the race. And once the elite coverage was done, we were able to follow it through twitter, facebook and other social media. Every marathon is inspiring. And with its huge history, the Boston Marathon is no less inspiring. The fact that you have to qualify to run the…
The Georgia Half Marathon was my first ever race in 2010. And it was my strong showing in the race in 2011 that gave me courage to sign up for my first marathon later that year. I’ve signed up every year since for it (although I didn’t actually end up running it a couple of years since it was 2 weeks after my Spring Marathon and I can’t really call it “running” last year when I ambled to the finish with…
About the end of August, I had a 2.5 hour run. It wasn’t the first long run I’d done, but it was to be my first long run without walk breaks. The evening before the run, I was a partial mess. I was so nervous about having to run straight out. And I kept going back and forth with what if I couldn’t run it all (without walk breaks), and what if .. and what if … Today, I had the same…
Runners have this funny saying “I run so I can eat”. I say funny because once you become a goal oriented runner, whether it is simply running X days/week or Y miles/week or training for performance, most runners put in an effort to fuel themselves to improve their performance. So while we try to be conscious of what we eat throughout the week, a post race option seems to be off limits. After burning anywhere from 1000-1500 calories for a…
My FaceBook status this past Wednesday read – It was in the low 60s outside and the sun was shining brightly and I was on the treadmill running. A tragedy. But unlike others who hate the treadmill, I embrace it. When I first started running, I ran on the treadmill exclusively. Yes, I had taken a mad leap by signing up for a half marathon as my first race, but I was like a beached whale, 190lbs, size 16, nursing my almost…
For some reason, maybe because it was the weekend of Valentine’s day, these lines were stuck in my head. It is a sonnet by Shakespeare made more famous by the Emma Thompson/Kate Winslet adaption of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. “Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;” Last week, I was battling sickness and getting my workouts in was…
This post on the Dopey Challenge Race Report is a compilation of all my Dopey days! Just a little blurb that hopefully makes it easier for someone to search and read them all (SEO – don’t give up on me now!!) Dopey Challenge: To go Dopey or Not to go Dopey (read before you register!) Week 0 : The Week Before Day 0 : The Expo Day 1 : The Fab 3 take on the Family Fun 5K…