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Weekly Recap: 16 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon

September 30, 2018 By Jessie Benson 25 Comments

There are 16 weeks until the Houston Marathon, which will hopefully be my 30th full marathon! Generally most marathon training plans are 16 weeks long, so I guess this is the official kickoff to training. I'm excited and feeling cautiously optimistic. The gorgeous fall running weather this week definitely helped. This is seriously the best time of year to be a runner. I hope this weather Continue Reading

Weekly Recap: 20 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon

September 2, 2018 By Jessie Benson 32 Comments

I hope you're all having a lovely weekend (hopefully a long one at that, if you get tomorrow off for the Labor Day holiday here in the US!) I'm here with my weekly recap, where I've been recapping my recovery from a broken tibia/fibula and building back to marathon shape in time to hopefully run my 30th marathon in Houston next January! Here's how training went this week: Monday:  Non-running Continue Reading

Weekly Recap Five Weeks Post-Broken Leg

March 25, 2018 By Jessie Benson 23 Comments

(If you primarily pop in here for my weekly recap, be sure to check out THIS POST from earlier this week!) Week 5! Yup, it's been FIVE weeks since I broke my tibia and fibula (and four weeks since I had surgery to put it all back together.) I'm still doing my weekly recaps, just as I used to, though let's be honest, they look a whole lot different than they did 6-7 weeks ago, don't Continue Reading

Week 2 After “The Big Disappointment”

February 26, 2018 By Jessie Benson 18 Comments

I'm still here. Crutching along. Living the dream. I had surgery on Friday. Pictured below: On our way to checking in to surgery...I was hungry and THIRSTY- I couldn't drink after 7 am, I guess because they weren't using a catheter?  TMI. Dr. Marc Swiontkowski was my surgeon at TRIA. He has a great reputation; he's known as one of the best trauma surgeons in the area, which was Continue Reading

Weekly Recap: THREE Weeks Until the Boston Marathon!

March 26, 2017 By Jessie Benson 17 Comments

Guess what arrived this week? My Boston Marathon "runner's passport." Sh*t's getting real. Only three weeks until the race; I'm definitely getting excited. Here's how training went this past week: Monday: 8 mile recovery run at a 9:09 min/mile average pace. Tuesday: Long morning tempo. 2 mile warm-up, 6 miles at a 7:30 pace, 2 mile cool-down. Oh my gosh, it was SO windy. This Continue Reading

Friday Five Favorites: Most Comfortable Non-Running Shoes

September 23, 2016 By Jessie Benson 13 Comments

Today's installment of Friday Five Favorites is a list of my favorite NON-running shoes. If I could wear my Brooks Ravenna's all day every day, I would, but unfortunately they aren't always acceptable (i.e. work in an office). Since most of us aren't lucky enough to have lives that allow us to wear workout clothes all day, it's important that we have good, supportive shoes for these times that Continue Reading

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