Why I’m Slowing Down to Speed Up Confession time: I’ve broken my own cardinal rule of fit life. I haven’t been listening to my body. In the end stretch of marathon training, my body said, I’m tired. How much longer do we have to do this? My feet said, You need to stop. My head …
Why I’m Running My First Marathon It’s September. Starting Week 14 of marathon training. And this is when it gets hard. My long runs are distances I’ve literally never run before. (Hello, 18 miles yesterday. I see you. I’m still feeling you.) In two weeks, I run 20 and then thankfully begin the taper that …
What Might Surprise You About the Fitness Journey The Back Story I haven’t been skinny, or even average, since the bony, knock-kneed days of childhood. As soon as prepubescence hit, my body changed, filled out, rounded in all the right places and a bunch of the wrong ones too. My friends were 5-7-9, just like …
Mile By Mile, How I Crushed My Race Goal Preface: I was going to refer to this post as my post-mortem on last weekend’s half-marathon, but that terminology seemed overly macabre. Since I didn’t actually die running it… Now that I have a half-marathon finisher medal to prove it, I’m finally considering running one of …
