Taking a break from running posts, May is National Bike Month! It’s finally warm enough to bike earlier in the day, and it just so happens that this week has been the National Bike to Work Week. Which I have done twice this week! What’s that phrase, where necessity is the mother of invention? Steve Read More

I’ve had a couple days to process Saturday’s race, and I’ve started sifting through some things I learned that I can focus on for the next one. (Cue “The more you KNOW…”) 1. My pace – in the end – wasn’t all that bad. Maybe I’m just bad at math, or lazy because I didn’t Read More

Holy WHAT?? I just ran a half marathon! That’s 13.1 miles DONE. This is a bit of a long post, but I wanted to make sure I documented everything. I got up at 5:00, ate a whole-wheat English muffin with peanut butter and a banana, my standard pre-long-run fuel. Steve and I were out of Read More

…And Rachel was slightly nervous that she’s running a half marathon tomorrow. Now entering the ohgeezseriouslywhatwasIthinkingohgeezohgeez state of being. They say on teh interwebz that this is normal, and that it’s actually a form of mental preparation. Thinking through the race, visualizing it. It’s an unknown. Am I physically able to run 13.1 miles? I’m Read More