A mom's journey of chasing sanity one mile at a time.
The fall marathon season is in full swing! With all the energy, time and focus runners put into their training, one thing that is often over looked is the recovery. It can make one feel like You have just accomplished an amazing goal, and obviously you want to do whatever it takes to be back […]
If you are looking for a great race, I highly recommend this one! The Indianapolis Marathon is classified as a “mid-size” race, but it has all the feel of a larger race. The course takes place in Fort Benjamin Harrison, and it is beautiful! The scenery along the whole course is spectacular. There is plenty […]
Last night I was watching the Cross Fit games on ESPN. What the crap?! Those women were insane! I was a little bit afraid. They are crazy strong. I’m pretty sure I will never be a Cross Fit person, but it did inspire me to throw a few handstands up against the wall. My kids […]
Finally! I went out for my run Tuesday morning and noticed a difference in the temperature. Bring on the cool mornings! Tuesday’s run was 6 miles. One mile easy pace, 4 mile tempo, 1 mile easy (8:21, 7:44, 7:40, 7:29, 7:17, 8:02). There are 6 and half weeks until my marathon. I’ve been trying to […]
Happy Friday! Today’s workout was a 4 mile run at an easy pace, followed by this arm workout and this ab workout from Blonde Ponytail. She has some great workouts over there! So yesterday, I mentioned that one thing I took away from my last marathon training was that I was consistently training too fast. I’ve done a lot of […]
This morning I woke up nice and sore courtesy of my strength training workout yesterday. Especially in all those places runners tend to be the weakest. It made me nervous as I headed out for today’s run, but like usual, running made everything loosen up, and I felt really good. Today’s run was 6 miles […]
Today is a rest day. I’ll be packing up my running shoes and getting ready for tomorrow’s early morning drive to Chicago. I usually don’t stress over packing, and just throw everything in a suitcase, but I have been obsessively keeping a list of what I need to bring. How awful to get there and […]