Happy Holidays! I hope you had an awesome week. I'm here with my weekly recap of training for the Houston Marathon, which is 4 weeks away! This was a big week in training, though I did take an unplanned (though much needed) rest day. Here's how things went this week: Monday: I ran to meet my friend Christie for a morning run; we did 5 together and I did 4 alone to get to 9 miles at a 9:20 Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 10 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
Another week, another weekly recap of training for the Houston Marathon! Time is flying by and there are just 10 short weeks until I run my 30th marathon at the end of January. *Quick note- if you only check in here for my weekly recaps, be sure to check out this post, the 3rd post about our trip to Norway- this time recapping our time in Bergen! Winter arrived in full force this week in Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 13 Weeks Post Broken Leg
First things first! The exciting news of the week is that my story about missing the Antarctica Marathon due to a broken leg was featured in Runner's World this week. Read it HERE. I was interviewed a few weeks ago for the article. The writer is a freelancer who I believe found me through this blog! Of course, I would have preferred to NOT have broken my leg and not been in Runner's World, Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 9 Weeks Post-Broken Leg
The sun is shining here in Minneapolis! But even with the sun..I still feel a little glum. Let's discuss... Monday: [solidcore] before work, vinyasa class at Corepower Yoga (at 7:30 pm- love the late class options for my current work load.) Tuesday: 1 hour personal training with Ericka of EDK Training She came to my house again and gave me a killer workout. (Look at me- weight bearing Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 8 Weeks Post-Broken Leg
Hello from Minneapolis, the land where winter will never end! Seriously. This time last year, I was running in shorts and overheating at the Boston Marathon! Instead this year we had the blizzard from hell in APRIL! Dustin was supposed to run the Zumbro 50 miler and he couldn't even get to the start line. The roads were so bad that he was diverted to Rochester and never even got to the Continue Reading