This past Sunday, I completed my 28th full marathon, the TCS New York City Marathon. It was my 18th state on my quest to run a marathon in all 50 states, and my last of the 6th World Majors. (Chicago: 2011, Berlin: 2013, Tokyo 2015, London 2016, Boston 2017, New York City 2017) All in all, a really fun day, quite the experience! The TCS New York City Marathon is the biggest marathon in the Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: The Week of the New York City Marathon
Hello there! I'm late with my weekly recap, but I have an excuse, i.e. the New York City Marathon! As you may know, my co-host of the link-up, Jess, also ran the New York City Marathon, and we both didn't have time to set up the formal link-up site, but I still wanted to share my recap of the week leading up to the marathon yesterday. And then I will share a full recap of the marathon as soon as Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: One Week to Go!
It was a fun-filled week here at the Right Fits with lots of Halloween celebrating and whatnot, mixed in with another week of training for the New York City Marathon, which is just one short week away! If you missed it, I shared two posts this week, gear tips for running in the dark and a reflection on the past 18 weeks of training for the NYC Marathon. Check them out! I'm here as usual with Continue Reading
Fitting Remarks: Training for the New York City Marathon
As I approach the final few days of training/tapering for the New York City Marathon, I thought it would be fun to look back on the training, week by week. I started "training" for the NYC marathon 18 weeks out, which was 2 weeks after I paced my sister Erin at Grandma's Marathon (if you missed that post, read it here! Oh, how I love pacing friends and family!) 18 weeks- This week Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 3 Weeks Until the New York City Marathon
Three weeks until the New York City Marathon; it's so close! I'm linking up as always with Jess from Jess Runs ATL. Details below, join us! I'm also joining HoHo Runs/Mississippi Piddlin, who host similar link-ups. Check them out! I generally am a morning runner, but I really struggled this week getting up before work. I think part of it was that my normal morning running buddy Christie Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: Four Weeks Until The New York City Marathon
Happy Sunday! Today's post will be short and sweet. It was a relatively uneventful week. I don't even have very many pictures to share...(but did you check out my Ragnar Trail recap? That post had lots of pics!) P.S. Congrats to everyone who ran the Chicago Marathon today! It sounds like it was a tough day out there. I had one woman that I coach who ran and it sounds like the heat was Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 5 Weeks Until The New York City Marathon!
Happy Twin Cities Marathon day! If you ran, how did it go? I was out there cheering and it seemed like a great day for a marathon! Speaking of marathons, here's how my training for the New York City Marathon went this past week! (Also- I'm linking up with Jess as normal, details at the end of this post, as well as HoHo Runs/Mississippi Piddlin, who host similar link-ups. Check them Continue Reading