I’ve talked about this before, but after my experience at the Rome Marathon in March, I decided to focus on my half marathon goals & put the marathon on a back burner. When I achieved my sub-2 half goal at Rock n Roll San Diego, I continued to focus on half marathons and set a […]
Things have been really crazy the past 2 weeks, between our biggest monthly event of the year at work, not being able to sleep more than 4 hours a night, the heat & humidity and excitement about my upcoming trip to San Fran, I’ve had some ups and downs exercise wise these last 2 weeks. […]
Only 20 days until The San Francisco Marathon (1st half for me). I’m really excited because my sister & brother-in-law are doing the 5k so it’ll be a bit of a family affair. This week was so much better, I felt good, my nutrition was great, no slip ups even with the 4th of July. […]
This was another semi rough week, I was still detoxing from my sugar issue so I was still not feeling 100% and we had work meetings again this week and it’s hard to stick to my nutrition plan when I’m away from the office. I think I mentioned last week that I decided to work […]
I’ve been training with my new coach for 7 weeks now, time sure flies doesn’t it? And it occurs to me that I don’t think I’ve ever put out there what I’m training for. I have so many goals, fitness, financial, personal, you name it and I’ve probably got a goal for it. I started […]
This was an interesting week. And it didn’t go quite as I had hoped. I was having a lot of pain in the bottom of my feet, which is semi-new. I had plantar fasciitis in early 2013, I ran on it for probably 8 weeks (including racing 3 half marathons), which is so not recommended […]
After an awesome trip to San Diego and a PR race, this week was all about recovery. I had an easy week and really didn’t run too much, which was good since work was crazy busy with local meetings and late dinners. Monday: 20 minutes Foam Rolling & Stretching – Actual: 20 minutes of Yoga […]
This week was an odd week, starting off with a holiday and then I was traveling pretty much the full week so I didn’t exactly adhere to my plan – oops ;). Monday – Easy Recovery Run I woke up with sore legs from the long run the day before and didn’t feel right so […]
Week 3 didn’t exactly go as planned, I was pretty tired after 2 weekends of back to back runs. I was sore and could definitely feel that I hadn’t taken a full rest day. So here’s the week in review – One week until the Rock n’ Roll San Diego 1/2 Marathon. Monday – Easy […]
I leave today to travel to the Eternal City, Rome, Italy for my 3rd marathon. I’m both excited and nervous. All 3 marathon training cycles have been wrought with a few Burnt Toast moments… My first marathon was supposed to be the New York City Marathon in 2012. I trained, tapered, went to NYC, actually […]