I don’t know if the Diva’s Half Marathon is worth writing about after a whole month!! But I like to keep records of all races run and this will be a good one to read later. The inaugural Diva’s Half Marathon, Peachtree City was scheduled on my birthday, September 6th. And I knew I had to do it! What are the odds that I would get to run a fun themed race exactly on my birthday!! Because of the 2hour…
What an EPIC weekend at the Ragnar Relay Napa Valley (in fact it was the highlight of an epic 10 days for me, but that’s a new post on a personal vacation)! 12 BAMRs (BadA$$ Mother Runners) lead by Sarah and Dimity, our two fearless leaders, took on Ragnar Relay Napa Valley. And the exuberance that we unleashed on the roads – I don’t think the roads leading in to Napa was ready to handle that. This is more of a…
The following post is sponsored by Sweatpink on behalf of AMRAP. All opinions are my own. I was not compensated monetarily for this blog post. Being a busy working athlete, I’m always on the lookout for easy to carry nutrition that I can eat on the go and that can stay at the bottom of my purse until the day I am hungrily digging through it frantically. And bars are an essential part of my repertoire. I stash a variety…
These past 2 weeks have been super crazy, hence the lack of blog posts. Mainly because I’ve got my supermom cape on. Since school has started, I have to maintain a strict schedule, my moorings are split up by the bus pickup time, my nights are longer having to fix lunches and snacks before I sit down for more work, and there is a never ending flow of things to be signed and completed for school. Lots of things that…
http://www2.jdrf.org/site/TR/TeamJDRF/JDRFNationalChallenge?px=9097790&pg=personal&fr_id=4083 In January, I will be taking on the Dopey Challenge in January (5k, 10k, Half Marathon and Full Marathon over 4 consecutive days Thursday-Sunday). Along with this physical challenge, I have joined Team JDRF to raise funds for the millions of people living with and affected by type 1 diabetes (T1D). My race entry, lodging, etc has already been paid for. So every $ you help me raise will go towards Team JRDF. The money I raise will help JDRF…
“A statement or slogan repeated frequently to aid concentration.” That would be my definition of running mantras. It is not enough to train your body to run through those miles, the mind also needs to be trained to lead the body. There a huge difference, for me atleast, in the way I deal with my body and mind. Unless I am in pain or I am running on low sleep reserves, my body does what I tell it to do. My mind,…
When I think back to my favorite race memories – some of my best race memories are not the races where I was “blazing fast”, but those that I remember because of the hard work and heartbreak that went in to training for it. Which is why even my 5k PR doesn’t make the list, because I didn’t specifically train for the 5k. It was enroute to training for a marathon and I just happened to PR. 1. The FIRST One – Georgia Half…