MCM Mama Runs for Beer and Bling
I am currently 14 weeks out from my 5th Marine Corps Marathon. I’ve done Hal Higdon’s training plan twice and attempted Hansons training plan twice. I say attempted because it’s a really hard plan and I’ve never been able to hit all of the mileage at all the right paces. Last year was closer than…
Marine Corps 17.75 March 24, 2018 2:00:29 Temp: low 30s What I wore: beanie, tank top, half zip top, Ragnar jacket, Happy Girl skirt, Toasty Cheeks tights, and Altra Escalante I have a love/hate relationship with this race. I love the course, despite it being one of the hardest races I run each year. I…
Saturday morning I will be running my 4th Marine Corps 17.75. Every year I debate signing up for this race. It’s a challenging course at a time of year when weather in this area is iffy, but the Golden Ticket is a huge incentive. This year I got into the Marine Corps Marathon through the…
It’s almost that time of year again. Time to start sorting out my registration for the Marine Corps Marathon. Do I try to get online and sign up for 17.75? And then run one of the hardest races in the area for the pleasure of handing over my credit card to pay for my guaranteed…
This past Sunday I finished my 4th Marine Corps Marathon. It wasn’t my fastest and it wasn’t my slowest. It did, however, have one of the lowest points I’ve had in a race in a very long time. My recap is super long, in part because I don’t want to forget any of it. If…
October has felt a bit like a roller coaster. The weather has been cold and hot and every where in between. That could pretty much describe my running as well. I kicked off the month with a long run with a “meh” half marathon in the middle. The distance and pace were fine, but the…
Note that I chose MCM’s wording of “Mission Accomplished” rather than “Goal Accomplished”. Finish time: 4:57:17. I ran. I finished. I learned some lessons about myself and about running a marathon. Marine Corps Marathon #4 in the books. Marine Corps Marathon #5 next year will be a love run, not a redemption run. More on…
If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you already know that time goals are not my thing. I run because I need to run, so anything that takes away the enjoyment of running is something I don’t do. Speed work is not my jam and tempo runs kind of suck. You…
… an overweight alcoholic. (afflilate link) I mostly jest, but running is my stress release, my anti-depressant, my coping mechanism, my “me time”. I am also a huge stress eater. Running both keeps my stress levels down so I don’t feel the need to eat an entire box of cookies (or a whole container of…
Here we are at the end of September, ready once again to head to the Runfessional. I have apparently run out of motivation before I’ve run out of training plan. This week was supposed to be a peak mileage week, but between the exhaustion from Ragnar, the remnants of my cold. and TWO Back to…
It’s Friday, Frr Frr Frr Friday! This week has kicked my butt. The kids had their first day of school on Tuesday. I’ve run about a billion miles (ok, only 29 in 4 days, but still…) I’ve been to a million stores looking for supplies (the high school and middle school here give us supply…
Here we go! Another school year is about to begin. I’m kind of in denial that I no longer have a kid in elementary school, but the big change this brings is that everyone is out of the house before 7:30am now. We’ll see if that means I get out the door to run earlier…