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This week I’ve been feeling a little bit of imposters syndrome. Though I’m in week 5 I have gotten up and ran before work exactly once, even though I swore I would. I’ve been pretty serious about training so far but it hasn’t really gotten serious yet, but I don’t FEEL serious about it. Could... Continue Reading →
I’ve been a runner and I’ve had hair for a long time now. Somedays that hasn’t worked out so well for me. In fact over the years I’ve switched up how I do things because of my hair on numbers occasions because of running. Recently I’ve even chopped it all off mostly for running. But... Continue Reading →
Here's what I've noticed... the times I've moved forward the most in my life I've been forced. That's true in big ways and small ways. It can sometimes come out of hard or difficult times but that's not always the case. In a couple of ways that's happening for me now. Hell that's the reason... Continue Reading →
This week was one where a few things popped up to make running a little harder. We had a couple of rain days and for no good reason at all that always seems to make it a little harder to make it out the door. There was a lot of work stuff that had to... Continue Reading →
This week may be the point I look back on later in training that led me to thinking this would be easy. I worked 58 hours for myself, about 5 for honey and 5 more tutoring. I also got all my runs in pretty effortlessly. Well mostly effortlessly but pretty easily at least. I’m loving... Continue Reading →
My favorite gardening projects are taking spaces that have been forgotten and neglected and bringing them back to life. More often than not with a bit of work I'm able to take something that looks a mess and tame it into something beautiful. I especially love when I can do this without bringing in new... Continue Reading →
This week has been a hell of a lot easier on the head than last week was. It goes to show that starting is often the hardest part. Well starting and peak week probably. This week was some short runs, all the same length that made me a bit happy for no really good reason... Continue Reading →
I haven’t trained for a new distance since 2018 and even though I previously wrote a post entitled ‘why I’ll probably never run a marathon,’ I’m doing it! So whoever had age 38 in the family pool your odds are looking pretty good right about now. Of course anything can happen between now and October,... Continue Reading →
This past week had me thinking a lot about ideal conditions. That and the fact that if we waited for ideal conditions to do things we would literally never leave the house! Of course we never seem to need ideal conditions to do the little things or the stuff that isn't really for us. Conditions... Continue Reading →
You guys… It’s happening… Week one of my first marathon training cycle is behind me! Yes it is by definition physically the easiest week but mentally the first week can be a doozy. At least it was for me. You can read all about the minutia of that in this Sunday’s post as well as... Continue Reading →
Sweat Sweetly 