If you want to buy this stuff, go for it. But I’ve thought about it and for lots of pretty good reasons I won’t. I think I’m a pretty deliberate person so I think at least a little bit about the stuff we buy at out house. Interesting fact in households women make the majority... Continue Reading →
Bare Minimum Half Training 2019 Update 4: Birthday Week and Procrastination
Ugg this week!!! Not my strongest training week in the history of training. I need to spend some time seriously thinking about the fact that I want to do this and that means I have to do the work. This week was my birthday and my sister’s birthday which in my defense does make it... Continue Reading →
Visualizations for Runners
Running is hard, hard physically and hard mentally especially when you are training for a certain goal distance or pace. It can and does beat up your body a bit, logistically its hard to fit in sometimes and it can play tricks on your head. While all of that stuff is hard it also makes... Continue Reading →
Weekend Motivation 99
Unless you are the current world record holder in your chosen sport chances are you dream of being as fast as someone else. You might think I'm going to say let go of that, you're perfect just the way you are and stuff like that, but I'm not. That's all true but ... truthfully we're... Continue Reading →
What Makes a Race Special?
Races are all fun right? I’d be a terrible critic for movies, food, races and pretty much everything else. For the most part I just like it all! I almost never say something wasn’t good, well except some of the movies honey watches but pretty much every one with Russian gangsters follows the same plot... Continue Reading →
Bare Minimum Half Training 2019 Update 3: Cross-training Nirvana and Heat
Quick contact the Guinness people I just had the best cross-training day that anyone ever has, period, exclamation point. Get ready for some gushing and I’m going to be a bit extra about it because it was just that good! This week a lot of stuff just came together for me. Not really big things... Continue Reading →
Bye, Bye Blisters and Foot Care for Runners
Google ‘marathoner’s feet’, go ahead, I’ll wait. Gross right? Guess what I’m an endurance runner and I don’t have feet like that at all! I have had a few issues over the years, not that many but I did have a big toe nail turn black and fall off once. The key with foot issues... Continue Reading →
Weekend Motivation 98
Outside factors. Two words and so, so much meaning! Whether you're trying to lose weight, break a long standing personal record or just live to the end of the race and finish all that really matters is that you make yourself proud. Period. No one else matters! Sometimes you can feel pressure from outside forces... Continue Reading →
How to be a Crappy Neighbor
This post is supposed to be a bit tongue in cheek but I promise all of this has actually happened some of it to me but way more to other people. We’ve all done some shitty stuff and had it done to us by a certain point in life. The stuff that some of our... Continue Reading →
Half Marathon Training Update 2: Flats and Hills
This week was a really different week for me. Honey was away for most of it as he was the week before too. We spend a lot of time together like most couples and then extra work time together too. It’s a lot, sometimes a lot, a lot. I joke, mostly but since I moved... Continue Reading →