I don’t love 14 like I do 13, but that’s ok, it can still be an awesome year. I’m a “goals not resolutions” girl, so this format for goals really kept me on track last year, so I’m trying it again. Running Finish another five half marathons in five days. I’m super excited to be…
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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…
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. …
Girls’ Weekend Half Marathon
A while ago K from Just Trying is for Little Girls mentioned she wanted to do the Flying Pirate Half Marathon as her North Carolina race. Somehow, G, T, and I were all able to clear our schedules and join her. We met in Richmond and headed down to the Outer Banks. We made good…
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. …
How I survived 5 half marathons in 5 days
I’ll admit that before I started this adventure, I was pretty well convinced I’d end up injured or walking many miles or both. Amazingly, neither happened. Not sure if any of my “necessities” will work for you, but here’s how I held my body together for 5 races. Pre-race PB&J. Nuff said. Glide. Anywhere I…
Dust Bowl Series review
Many of you have asked questions about my adventure. I’ll try to answer those all here as well as give some (hopefully) useful information. There may be some changes in the future based on feedback from this year’s runners. Before I get into what I thought of this series, here are my final results: Dalhart,…
State #26: New Mexico – Half Marathon 5 of 5!
Short story: I finished and I finished STRONG! Long story: The fifth and final day of the Dust Bowl Series was being run at Clayton Lake State Park. The park was about 25 minutes outside of Clayton, New Mexico, so we had to get up seriously dark and early Friday morning. I made a PB&J…
What a pretty map!
A day of rest
I did it. Despite many moments of doubt and a few unexpected problems along the way, I finished all five races. I even ran the majority of the miles, which was a personal goal of mine. It was an amazing experience! Now, I’m going to take a few days and enjoy the rest of my…
And away we go!
By the time you read this, I’ll be at least partway through the first half marathon of the week. Our trip to Denver went mostly smoothly. We had a really full flight, so I ended up gate checking the bag with my running shoes and then spent the whole flight worried that I wouldn’t be…
I may be overpacking…
Last night I started packing for the trip. No, we don’t leave for a few days, but I need to be making progress. For the last 7 years, we haven’t gone on a vacation that didn’t involve at least a few nights at a house or condo with a washer and dryer. (I’m kind of…