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Wilmington Half Marathon Race Recap
Posted on April 20, 2021 2 Comments
Races are back, baby! Maybe it’s just been too long since I’ve been able to enjoy a race with friends, but this past weekend was so much fun! Franklin finished his first race since 2017 (no joke!) and snagged a BQ with 17 minutes to spare. And I took on the half to test my […]
Greenville 5K Race Recap
Posted on March 2, 2021 Leave a Comment
In an effort to inject some speed into my legs, I woke up at 4:00am (!!!) this past Saturday to drive down to Greenville, SC for their 5K on the Swamp Rabbit trail. The event was also my first public race since COVID hit, and I was interested to see what a road race would […]
Training Update!
Posted on February 26, 2021 1 Comment
It’s been over two months since I competed in The Marathon Project, an elite-only 26.2-mile race in Arizona. If you’d ask me around mile 20 of the race, I probably would have told you that I was never running another marathon again in my life. But here I am, just a couple of months later, […]
Race Recap: The Marathon Project
Posted on January 30, 2021 9 Comments
Despite 2020 being a doozy of a year, I was fortunate enough to have had several unique racing opportunities that grew out of the pandemic. The most recent was The Marathon Project in Chandler, Arizona. I’ll start by saying that there couldn’t have been a better “bubble” than the one we had at The Sheraton […]
TCS NYC Marathon Race Recap
Posted on December 16, 2019 1 Comment
New York was a whirlwind! It was such an amazingly cool experience, but my mind was definitely in a sensory-overload state for at least a week after the race. My brain was like the fried egg in those old commercials that described a brain on drugs. I was thankful for the race but also tired. […]
California International Marathon Race Recap
Posted on December 28, 2018 Leave a Comment
Man. Those are some big, clunky shoes. What are they? And how much do they weigh? These were my thoughts as I sat in the elite tent situated a stone’s throw from the start of the 2018 California International Marathon. I was checking out the giant, black shoes that all of the Bowerman Track Club […]
Grandma’s Marathon Race Recap
Posted on June 21, 2018 5 Comments
2013 was the year that I first believed that I had a shot at one day qualifying for the Olympic Marathon Trials. On a sticky note, I wrote “6:13,” the pace I needed to achieve my goal, and I pinned it to my office cubicle as a daily reminder. However, instead of getting faster, I […]
Chicago Marathon Recap
Posted on December 9, 2017 2 Comments
Thanks be to the running Gods! I have finished a marathon. But seriously, it feels pretty darn good to finally check off another 26.2 after going almost four years without completing a marathon! Crossing the Chicago finish line was a huge weight off my shoulders. It was the feeling of turning in your last final […]
It’s About Time – Kiawah Island Half Marathon Race Recap
Posted on January 2, 2017 1 Comment
Yogis preach the value of being present. One’s mind should be in the current moment instead of drifting off to recount the items on the grocery list or obsess over a bad day at work. But I question whether we are already too deeply rooted in the present moment and specifically our present feelings. When […]
Greek Fest Recap – A Sad Time
Posted on September 23, 2016 4 Comments
I’ve never broken 18 minutes in the 5K. Part of the reason why I haven’t reached this milestone is because I’ve only raced a couple of 5Ks in the past five years. The other part is because 5Ks are really freakin’ – no, not awesome, Lauren Fleshman – but hard. 5Ks ARE REALLY FREAKIN’ HARD. […]
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