I live in the land of the Type A personality. Everyone here works a zillion hours and has their kids in 5000 activities. OK, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but only a bit. In fact, around here, it’s almost a badge of honor to proclaim how busy you are. And as one of…
Category: 5 in 5
Spring Forward Friday
Once again I’m linking up with the DC Trifecta for a Friday Five. This week’s theme is “Spring Forward” and let me tell you, I am so ready for spring! 1. 8 days from now I run my first 2014 half marathon. After that, I’m running 12 more in rapid succession. In fact, I only…
Running like it’s my job
I ran 40 miles last week with almost 17 of them happening during the weekend. I have 44 as my goal this week. Do you have any idea how much time that takes? According to my log on Running Ahead, I ran for 7 hours and 27 minutes last week! And that time does not…
#beautifulrun and Treadmill Tell-All
Yesterday, I ran a half marathon. Not a race. Not even a virtual race. I just ran 13.1 miles because I could and because the sun was shining. In fact, the sun was shining so nicely and the temp was so balmy that I was horribly overdressed. Until mile 9 when the cold front started…
One run won’t matter
I am deep into my training for the five half marathons in five days. I’m beginning to hit the kind of mileage I only hit when I’m training for a marathon or back to back half marathons. The week started off great with an unplanned 10 mile run. Usually I run my longest run on…
6 down, 12 to go…
Training weeks, that is… Yesterday, I may have had my worst run ever. And today I am paying for it. I ran 8.2 no good, very bad miles on a beautiful sunny day. My left calf was so tight that it made my foot go numb. Seriously. I stretched it about every half mile and…
Awesome friends + training update
One of the hardest things about reaching for Venus as well as doing 14+ races next year is trying to minimize the costs involved. We have a lot of big things on the horizon, so money needs to be managed carefully if I want to accomplish these goals. I’ve been taking every chance I can…
Call me crazy
So, I’ve started looking at my plans for 2014. In fact, I’ve started registering – 6 already paid for and 1 I’ll be registering for tomorrow. I’m finding two problems: I’m missing 1 race for the 13 in 79 days (found one) AND I’ll have a race every weekend for 6 weeks. I’m not worried…
So, how are those goals workin’ for ya?
At the beginning of the year, I declared “This year is going to be epic. I just know it. After all, 13 is my lucky number.” So far, this year has indeed been epic. I’m on track for 13 half marathons in 2013 and that sets me up nicely for 13 halves in 79 days…
Trying to reset
I didn’t really run last week. I’m not even sure what I did. It was kind of a blur of car buying, insurance fighting, kid wrangling, and job juggling. I just know that by Friday I was wrapped so tight, I thought I was going to shatter. Finally, I went for a run on Saturday. …
2 things Thursday + Pin It Party
1. I’m finally feeling normal. I took naps three days in a row this week, which is pretty much unheard of for me. But they weren’t optional. My body pretty much said “Sleep. Now.” So I did. Yesterday I finally went out in my Kinvara 4’s and ran a fast for me 4 miles. I…
Goals Revisited
At the beginning of the year, I declared “This year is going to be epic. I just know it. After all, 13 is my lucky number.” And so far, it has been. I trained hard, I broke myself, and yet, somehow, I accomplished my big goal of finishing my five half marathons in five days. …