When I looked back on my "Month in Review" post from September, I couldn't believe how much has happened in just a few weeks! When I wrote that post, the longest I had run since starting to run again was 6 miles. This month I ran a half-marathon! I feel like I made quite a bit of progress in a short time, making this one of my best months in a while. Baltimore Half-Marathon The highlight of October was ... Read the Post...
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This is What Happens When I Don’t Have a Plan
For so long I was injured or coming back from injury, so I was slowly increasing each run very systematically. Then, I decided to do a half so I structured a couple of weeks of workouts to prepare for that. Now, I don't have any sort of plan. This week I had a hard time deciding how much to run and ended up doing more than I set out to do. (This is what happens when I don't have a plan.) I should really just make myself ... Read the Post...
Baltimore Running Festival Half-Marathon 2017
The Baltimore Running Festival will always be a special event for me, mostly because it was my first race in 2007! This means I have been racing for 10 years. I've participated in the BRF 6 times now and I can remember exactly why I didn't participate those other years. The first time I did this race I ran it in 1:53:09. Then, when I returned in 2011, I ran it in the exact same time!! So part of me was like "wouldn't ... Read the Post...
A Surprise Race Week
If you didn't know I was doing a race last week, don't worry. I didn't tell anyone! Except Rob, because he had to pick up my bib. I'll be sharing more about this surprise race later this week, but for today I want to back up and talk about the week leading up to the race. So to back up a bit, I started running again after taking 6 weeks off at the end of August. Around the end of September I got up to running 6 miles, ... Read the Post...
