Doesn’t that picture just exude excitement and accomplishment? Between 11pm Friday night and 11am Saturday morning I ran 50 miles in my first ultra. It’s unbelievable to me even as I write this. My goals for the Christmas in July 12-hour race were to be able to finish the full 12 hours and to make… (read more)
I had high hopes for this year’s race. This would be the year that I hit 4:30:00, or at least I would make a significant PR over last year’s 4:41:37. After running for almost four years I still feel like a newbie and with this being only my 3rd marathon I know that there are… (read more)
Yesterday, I ran the Happy Girls Half-Marathon in Spokane, Washington as part of the Another Mother Runner: Run + Refresh retreat and as my goal race in AMR’s heart rate training coaching plan (on trainlikeamother.club). I had never run a trail race before, and must say that I was really unprepared coming into my… (read more)
So my husband did end up working Saturday, which really sucked. I found a babysitter for the kids thank goodness, so I didn’t have to let 4 months of training go to waste. However this means that I was on my own for the race, no cheer section, and drove myself home achy legs and… (read more)
The bad thing about race morning is the 5:00am-ish alarm. Also going to bed before your kids on a “stay up night” and missing the end of Furious 7 because you’re aware of this 5:00am alarm. Now, I’ve had 5:30am or so long runs in the summer to beat the heat (also not fun), but… (read more)
