When I woke up to snow this morning, my first thought was "This is why you train in all kinds of weather - a treadmill can't prepare you for this!" My Hubs J and I quickly got ready, packed our gear, grabbed a bite and once the boys were settled in … [Continue reading]
The sharp knee pain from Sunday morphed into dull, but very present knee pain on Monday and Tuesday. So I skipped Tuesday's 3 miler in favor of a lot of ice and some stretching. Seems to have paid off because today's intervals felt great - speedy for … [Continue reading]
One of the beauties of being a new runner is that there are lots of firsts to celebrate! This morning I added a couple more firsts to my collection -- I ran 8 miles and in 15 degrees!Obviously I'm more excited about hitting 8 miles than I am about … [Continue reading]
It's 60 degrees today! 60 degrees! It's been a l-o-n-g time since I've run in 60 degree weather. In fact I overdressed...definitely had too much on this morning. But, I didn't care because I was running outside....and did I mention it was 60 … [Continue reading]
Last week was a good one!There were no snow days, which meant schedules were fairly normal for the first time since the begining of January.I got all of my planned workouts in except for an easy 3 miler which I opted to skip in favor of yoga to keep … [Continue reading]
The lovely Kittee over at Running Half Crazy was sweet enough to bestow this lovely award on me. Now many of you have seen this so you know the rules: Make a post and link back to the person who tagged you. - If you have not checked out Kittee's … [Continue reading]
A few weeks back I put out there that I was debating whether or not to sign up for the Rock 'n' Roll Providence Half in August. Well as some of you pointed out, RnR races are a lot of fun and with one right in my backyard why miss this opportunity? … [Continue reading]
Thanks to those of you who indulged me in my little pity party on Friday - I really appreciated the encouragement!So I've shaken off my mini funk, tweaked my plan and am ready to get going again! After a week off, I wasn't sure how the run was going … [Continue reading]
The plan was to kick February off with a bang!After a step back week, I was going to up the mileage this week, I had my strength workouts laid out and the plan was to start and end every day with a little yoga. Sounds good, right?Yeah well...the … [Continue reading]
Good things this month: Logged 56 relatively pain-free miles - ice and foam roller helped to keep the ITB in check. Did not miss one scheduled run despite weekly snow storms of biblical proportion (ok slight exaggeration... or not if you listen to … [Continue reading]
